Expert Network Planning and Design Services

A network planner assesses current infrastructure, business goals, application needs, site requirements, resilience targets, and budget constraints. They design the connectivity strategy, WAN topology, failover approach, cloud access, and security integration required to support reliable operations. Sabertooth Advisory also benchmarks supplier options, evaluates SD-WAN platforms, and helps clients avoid overbuying or accepting vendor-biased recommendations.

Network planning focuses on defining requirements, priorities, architecture, suppliers, budget, and risk before implementation begins. Network design turns that plan into a practical technical model, including circuit types, topology, routing policies, failover paths, security integration, and performance expectations. Together, they help ensure the final network supports business outcomes rather than simply adding more bandwidth or tools.

A typical engagement reviews your current connectivity, site list, applications, cloud dependencies, security needs, supplier contracts, outages, costs, and growth plans. Sabertooth Advisory then identifies gaps, compares supplier options, models total cost, and recommends a practical design. Depending on scope, this may include SD-WAN evaluation, ISP benchmarking, failover planning, and contract negotiation support.

The timeline depends on the number of sites, complexity of existing contracts, supplier availability, and whether an RFP is needed. A focused network assessment can often move quickly once invoices, contracts, and technical details are available. Larger multi-site designs or SD-WAN evaluations may require stakeholder interviews, supplier comparisons, pricing validation, and a structured recommendation phase before deployment planning begins.

Sabertooth Advisory charges $0 advisory fee to clients for network planning and related technology advisory work. The model is designed to give clients independent guidance without adding consulting cost to the buying process. Recommendations are built around client goals, budget, risk profile, and supplier fit, using competitive benchmarks across a 300+ supplier ecosystem.

Yes. Sabertooth Advisory evaluates SD-WAN platforms by performance, security, manageability, support, and total cost. The process looks beyond product features to determine how each platform fits your sites, applications, cloud strategy, security model, and operating team. The goal is to choose an SD-WAN approach that improves resilience and performance without creating unnecessary complexity.

Yes. Network design should include resilience from the beginning, not as an afterthought. Sabertooth Advisory helps plan diverse-path circuits, wireless backup, multi-carrier options, routing policies, and SD-WAN failover behavior so a single provider outage does not take critical locations offline. Supplier options are benchmarked by coverage, performance, cost, and availability at each operating address.

Vendor-neutral means recommendations are not tied to a single carrier, reseller catalog, or sales quota. Sabertooth Advisory compares options across 300+ technology suppliers and evaluates them against the same criteria: capability, price, SLA, support quality, risk, and total cost of ownership. This gives leadership a defensible basis for choosing suppliers and negotiating stronger terms.