Connectivity & WAN

Stop Auditing a Hundred Telecom Bills. One Network, One Invoice, Every Location.

Most multi-site networks are a patchwork: every location on its own carrier, contract, and invoice, with a single line that takes down POS, cloud, and comms the moment it cuts. We turn that into one accountable network across every site, with failover built in and the maintenance your lean team never gets to handled for you.

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The problem

When the network breaks, the business goes dark

Every location runs on a different carrier with its own contract, invoice, and point of contact, so your team audits a hundred telecom bills and chases billing errors across the whole footprint. When a circuit drops, the branch sits dark and bleeds revenue because no one local can troubleshoot it. And a single internet line is a single point of failure: one cut takes POS, cloud apps, and communications down at once.

Following a disaster, 90% of smaller companies fail within a year unless they can resume operations within 5 days.

FEMA, cited in a managed network services sales deck

Gartner estimates that 80% of total IT costs occur after the initial purchase.

Industry study cited in a product/TCO overview

Small businesses are 3x more likely to be targeted by cybercriminals than larger companies.

Barracuda 2021 Report, cited in a managed network services deck

By the numbers

The case, in numbers

TCO savings on managed connectivity platform

provider case study

Cost savings migrating MPLS to SD-WAN

provider case study

Small firms fail within a year without 5-day recovery

FEMA

Network availability via multi-carrier intelligent SIM

IoT connectivity case study

$250K/yr

Saved on idling and unplanned fleet trips

municipal case study

Usable throughput on a 100 Mbps link: tunnel-free routing vs. legacy IPsec VPN

Session-smart routing

99 Mbps

IPsec-with-GRE (legacy VPN)

67 Mbps

managed network services benchmark

How we solve it

Best-fit connectivity from every carrier, managed by one team

We start from your requirements, not one carrier's catalog. We source best-fit access from a deep partner bench, modernize the underlay, build in resiliency, and own day-to-day operations, so connectivity stops being a fire drill and becomes a platform you can scale on.

Vendor-neutral brokering

We start from your requirements, then source best-fit access from a deep partner bench: fiber and dedicated internet, broadband, fixed wireless, satellite/LEO, and dark fiber. You are never locked into a single provider's footprint or roadmap.

One contact, one invoice, every location

We consolidate procurement and billing coast to coast, run first-bill and ongoing invoice audits, and end the multi-carrier finger-pointing that buries your team in disputes.

WAN modernization, managed end-to-end

We design and migrate MPLS to SD-WAN through a piloted rollout, manage the underlay, and improve application performance to cloud and SaaS, without you carrying the project risk.

Resiliency by default

Diverse circuits plus 4G/5G wireless failover so one cut line does not stop your POS, cloud apps, or communications. Failover is automatic with no on-site effort, then fails back once the primary is confirmed secure.

Reach where carriers won't go

We engineer and escalate builds to remote, underbuilt, and out-of-footprint sites, coordinating last-mile options so distributed and edge locations get connected on schedule.

Security wrapped around the network, not bolted on

Segmentation, zero-trust posture, IDS/IPS, and DDoS protection ship with every design, and we help you document HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP requirements on the network itself.

How it fits together

The architecture, simplified

How traffic flows — vendor-neutral, resilient by default

Where you stand

From ad-hoc to optimized

The free evaluation places you on this maturity curve and maps the climb.

L1 · Ad-hoc / Reactive — Every site on a different carrier, separate contracts and invoices, no diagram of the WAN. Single circuits with no failover; outages take POS/cloud/comms down together and branches go dark. Config backups and firmware updates are abandoned under daily fires. Visibility is up/down at best. (NIST CSF: Identify/Protect largely absent — unmanaged assets, no asset inventory.)
L2 · Consolidated / Managed Billing — Carriers and circuits inventoried; procurement and invoicing consolidated to one contact and one invoice with first-bill and ongoing audits. Billing errors and multi-carrier finger-pointing shrink, but the underlay is still legacy MPLS/single-circuit and resiliency is patchy. (NIST CSF: Identify maturing — asset and vendor inventory established.)
L3 · Resilient / Modernized Underlay — Diverse circuits plus 4G/5G wireless failover deployed; MPLS-to-SD-WAN migration underway or complete via piloted rollout. Application-aware routing improves cloud/SaaS performance. 24/7 monitoring goes beyond up/down to application health; config backups and firmware are owned and current. (NIST CSF: Protect/Detect operational — segmentation, monitoring, patch hygiene.)
L4 · Secured & SLA-Governed — Connectivity ships with the security layer fused in — zero-trust posture, IDS/IPS, DDoS protection, content filtering, segmentation — and operations run to measurable SLAs with NOC accountability. Compliance (HIPAA/PCI-DSS/FedRAMP) is documented and provable on the network. Remote/out-of-footprint and field/fleet sites are connected via multi-carrier roaming. (NIST CSF: Detect/Respond mature — SLA-managed response, documented controls.)
L5 · Optimized / Continuously Improving — Network is a single accountable, application-aware platform across every site, fleet, and field team. Continuous optimization tunes bandwidth and policy; analytics/AIOps surface and root-cause issues before they cause outages; right-sized hardware avoids over-provisioning. IT reclaims hours to focus on the business; leadership scales to new sites with confidence. (NIST CSF: Recover + continuous improvement — adaptive, metrics-driven, lessons fed back.)

What you get

Outcomes, not vendor brochures

One contract and one invoice across every location, with billing errors caught by first-bill and ongoing audits
Automatic 4G/5G failover so an outage no longer takes your POS, cloud apps, and communications down together
MPLS-to-SD-WAN migration delivered through a piloted rollout, with the project risk on us, not you
Faster application performance to cloud and SaaS over an application-aware underlay
Remote, underbuilt, and out-of-footprint sites connected on schedule when carriers said no
Off-site config backups, firmware and patch updates, and 24/7 monitoring that watches application health, not just up or down
Compliance requirements like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP documented and provable on the network

Proven in the field

What outcomes like this look like across the industry

Outcome patterns from across the industry — the shape of results vendor-neutral delivery produces.

A multi-site enterprise drowning in per-location carrier invoices, with branches going dark, consolidates onto consistent dedicated circuits, one contact, and one invoice; downtime drops, audits shrink, and locations stop going dark.

A globally distributed brand on costly MPLS with high latency and poor SaaS access migrates to managed SD-WAN, cutting connectivity cost roughly 30%, lowering site-isolation events more than 60%, reducing tickets more than 35%, and freeing IT to focus on the business.

A multi-location healthcare provider with legacy phones and inconsistent internet moves to managed connectivity plus SD-WAN with failover; issue-resolution time drops sharply and leadership scales to new sites with confidence.

A Fortune-class enterprise building sites the big carriers refused to reach gets a partner who escalates to carrier executives, engineers a fundable build, and delivers dedicated bandwidth to the far end of the line on schedule.

A cold-chain healthcare shipper losing wireless coverage in transit deploys an intelligent multi-carrier SIM, reaching 100% connectivity across 650+ carriers and 165 countries with no spoilage of temperature-sensitive medications.

Key facts

IT Raven is a vendor-neutral connectivity broker that sources best-fit access from a deep carrier bench and stays your single point of contact across every provider.
A single internet line is a single point of failure; one cut can take POS, cloud apps, and communications down at once.
Migrations from MPLS to SD-WAN are commonly cited at roughly 30% connectivity-cost reduction when managed end-to-end through a piloted rollout.
FEMA data shows 90% of smaller companies fail within a year unless they can resume operations within 5 days of a disaster.
A managed connectivity platform is commonly cited at roughly 44% total-cost-of-ownership savings versus a patchwork of separate carrier contracts.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked

We already have a carrier rep, or we'll just go direct. Why add a layer?

Going direct means you inherit carrier rep churn, single-footprint catalogs, and no one accountable when a circuit on a different carrier fails. We are vendor-neutral: we start from your requirements, source best-fit access from a deep carrier bench, and stay your single point of contact across every provider. You are never restarting a relationship with a barely-trained replacement, and never locked to one carrier's roadmap or where they happen to have fiber.

Ripping out MPLS for SD-WAN feels too risky right now.

That is exactly why we manage the migration end-to-end instead of handing you a box. The rollout is a pilot: deploy to a data center and a few branches, run it for a few weeks, tune bandwidth and policy, then roll out the rest, so you de-risk before committing the whole footprint. Migrations from MPLS to SD-WAN are commonly cited at roughly 30% connectivity-cost reduction, and we own the underlay so application performance improves without you carrying the project risk.

An aggregator or TEM already consolidates our bills. Isn't that enough?

Bill consolidation alone is expense management with a markup on the circuits; it does not fix the network. We consolidate procurement and invoicing, run first-bill and ongoing audits, and design and manage the underlay, monitoring, and resiliency. Gartner estimates 80% of total IT cost occurs after the initial purchase. That 'after' is the part we manage down, and a managed connectivity platform is commonly cited at roughly 44% TCO savings versus the patchwork.

Our carrier says they can't reach that remote or underbuilt site.

That is where vendor-neutrality earns its keep. We do not accept the first carrier's 'no.' We engineer and escalate the build, coordinate last-mile and out-of-footprint options including fixed wireless and satellite/LEO, and push to deliver dedicated bandwidth to the far end of the line on schedule, rather than leaving the project stranded on a single carrier's footprint.

We only need one good internet line. Failover seems like overkill.

A single line is a single point of failure: one cut takes POS, cloud apps, and communications down together. We build diverse circuits plus 4G/5G wireless failover that fails over automatically with no on-site effort and fails back once the primary is confirmed secure, so 'could we be back online in 5 minutes or 5 days?' stops being a gamble. FEMA data shows 90% of smaller companies fail within a year if they cannot resume operations within 5 days of a disaster.

We're worried about security. Connectivity feels separate from our cybersecurity program.

It should not be separate. Every connectivity design we deliver carries the security and governance layer with it: segmentation, IDS/IPS, zero-trust posture, DDoS protection, and monitoring, so connectivity and protection ship together instead of security getting bolted on after the fact. We also help you meet and document HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and similar requirements on the network.

See your network the way an attacker, and an auditor, would

Start with a free IT and security evaluation. We map your sites, carriers, contracts, and failover gaps, then show you exactly where you are exposed and where you are overpaying, with a clear path to one accountable, resilient network. No obligation, no carrier pitch.