In today's economic environment many companies are being forced to look again at their infrastructure costs, and ask where can we save money, without loosing functionality and features? In some ways, the downturn is good for business, as we are forced to review our current cost structures and find ways of doing more but at the same time spend less!

Critical review of infrastructure can lead to significant cost saving!

The fact is that technology moves quickly, and a state-of-the-art, expensive solutions implemented 2 years ago may be today's cashflow sapping dinosaurs! This is particularly true when it comes to a corporates Internet or WAN connections. Due to the low bandwidth packages available a few years ago, combined with the lack of flexibility to change your bandwidth requirements from month-to-month, many companies chose to go with an uncapped Internet Solutions, business ADSL, connection. These solutions can cost anything from R1,300 per month for a slow 512Kbps to R3900 for, a still slow, 1Mbps per month!

With these old solutions you are not able to benefit from the new 4Mbps speed limit that the current, top-of-the-range, ADSL accounts offer. Another change has been that, whereas the highest cap for capped ADSL was 3 gigs a few years ago, you can now quiet easily get 10 to  200gig  accounts!  Today capped solutions now offered fixed IPs as well!

Companies with heavy Internet usage can cut costs with the 4Mbps, 50 gig ADSL solution!

So if your office is a heavy user of the Internet consider getting a capped 4Mbps solution for 50 gigs for as little as R1,904/month with 5 fixed IPs!. Thats about 50% less than what many pay for the uncapped 1Mbps solutions today!

If you are concerned about hitting your cap during the month, there is no need to worry, as many of these accounts now allow you to upgrade during the month, and downgrade at the beginning of the the next month. Another option, is to consider prepaid ADSL. With prepaid ADSL you can purchase bandwidth up to 200gig for around  R14,000 but this bandwidth never expires! It is available until used up, and should you want more, you can simply purchase more in any quantity that you need! This gives you complete control over your ADSL expenses, and does away with the annoying issue of keeping multiple ADSL accounts to switch out during the month when you hit your cap!

Now you can see your ADSL account as a variable, rather than a fixed expense each month. If times are tough you can cut down on the bandwidth usage, and whats more prepaid ADSL is contract free so you are not stuck in an inflexible position!

Companies with light Internet usage can get higher bandwidth and speed with a 10 gig ADSL account

So if your company is a light user of the Internet, say 10gigs per month, you can get increased speed and bandwidth by taking advantage of the 4Mbps capped solution with 5 fixed IPS for as little as R946 per month! or you can use the cheap 10 gig account for as little as R669 per month! 

An advantage of the cheaper ADSL accounts is that you are not tied into a 12 month contract with 90 day cancellation notice! In today's world flexibility is key and you should not be trapped by onerous cancellation clauses and contracts! You could also consider the prepaid ADSL options as well. You can get 10gigs for R749. If you do not use 10 gigs a month, your unused bandwidth will be carried forward indefinitely!