How can a network administrator save the company 7 million in five years?

One day, Director Wang rushed to Dr. M and said, "Do you know? We can save 7 million in five years !"

"What can save 7 million in five years ?" Dr. M was confused.

"I am talking about our company's use of the MSR router, the informatization construction can save 7 million in five years !" Wang said happily.

"Oh, this is the case! How can we save money ?" Dr. M was attracted.

"You see, the company's application system is migrating from C/S to B/S. To save the line rental fee, we plan to use IPSec VPN for VPC interconnection, all 30 offices nationwide are integrated into one network. The above leaders also specifically instructed that VoIP, which is very popular recently, should not only save traditional communication costs, but also achieve unified communication nationwide. The consultant said that the Internet-based network must implement wide-area acceleration to improve the Web and speech service capabilities ." Manager Wang said.

"At first, we made a budget: each office was configured with a WAN router, followed by a central Ethernet switch. Due to the company's large data volume and the requirement for absolute confidentiality, therefore, the VPN gateway must have strong encryption performance. The Voice Gateway configures an E1 to connect to our Programmable switch, an E1 to the carrier, and two 10-Gigabit ports to the IP network; dedicated WAN optimization devices are not cheap either. We have made a budget. Each device requires at least 0.25 million yuan. In addition to the integration and installation costs, each office requires about yuan in initial investment ." As said, Director Wang drew a table on the paper.

"Medium-term maintenance is required: the service cost of each device, coupled with the cost of replacement of vulnerable devices such as fans, power supplies, cables, and optical modules, cannot exceed five thousand RMB per year. In addition, the power of these devices may not be small. The power of each power is calculated at 0.5 yuan, and the electricity cost is only several thousand yuan a year, within five years, the O & M cost for each office must be at least 60 thousand." Director Wang then analyzed.

"In the future, is it inevitable to upgrade and scale up? Based on past experience, each upgrade requires a large investment, regardless of the software version or interface bandwidth upgrade, which requires a large amount of money. If the size of the office is large, the number of people increases, and constantly expand ......"

"In the next five years, an office will have to invest nearly 0.4 million yuan, and 30 offices will have to invest 12 million yuan ." Wang said in summary.

"Well, after using the MSR router ?" Dr. M asked.

"If you assign an MSR router to each office, the situation will be quite different: MSR's route throughput can reach 600 kpps, and its software operating system itself implements the gigabit firewall function, no hardware investment is required. It also supports high-density switching modules, enabling up to one hundred Ethernet interfaces; configuring an IPSec Encryption Engine with a Mbps encryption performance for MSR is only tens of thousands of yuan. With this engine, you can replace the high-performance VPN gateway. "Wang said, the more energetic, "Let's configure another E1 speech module with two ports, one E1 and one PBX and one E1 connected to PSTN, Which is tens of thousands of yuan. The WAN optimization function can be achieved by configuring the open business platform of MSR, then you only need to purchase the corresponding software. In this way, it takes only 10 million to purchase the device. One device is deployed in each office, and the Integration fee and installation fee are also reduced. You can see that the initial investment for each vertex cannot exceed 0.12 million ." Director Wang handed the device list to Dr. M.

"What about the long-term management and maintenance costs ?" Dr. M asked.

"Each MSR costs several thousand yuan of maintenance every year, and only one device is managed, and the power consumption is greatly reduced. I estimate that the investment for each node will not exceed ten thousand and five in five years ."

"In the future, if you want to increase the bandwidth, expand the interface, or upgrade the software version, you only need to perform operations on a single MSR device. How can this problem exceed 30 thousand Yuan ." Director Wang analyzed and drew another table.

"In this case, MSR equipment is used. In five years, one office only costs 0.17 million, and the total investment of 30 offices in five years is only 5 million ."

"Compared with the previous 12 million, does it save 7 million? This does not cover the cost savings for the carrier line brought by VPN and VOIP to the company !" Director Wang looked excited and said, "There is also that there are fewer management devices, and the human and material resources I need to invest are also greatly reduced. This account cannot be clearly calculated ......"

"I really don't know, but I was shocked," said Dr. M. "The purpose of enterprise informatization is not to improve work efficiency and save traditional expenses. In the face of numerous solutions to achieve the same performance and functions, how to choose a solution that can best reduce the cost of Informatization Construction and O & M is indeed worthy of consideration by every enterprise supervisor. Director Wang, you are ahead of everyone !"

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