Growth through acquisition can accelerate market reach and revenue. But it often leaves IT teams managing a fragmented network environment. When your organization is adding two new locations per month, each with its own carrier contracts, circuit types, and support agreements, the result is a patchwork infrastructure that’s expensive to maintain and difficult to secure.
For IT professionals tasked with keeping systems stable while supporting aggressive expansion, this creates a critical challenge: how do you standardize connectivity, control costs, and maintain security across dozens of disparate sites without overburdening your team?
A facilities customer of 11:11 Systems encountered this challenge. As they rapidly acquired companies, managing their network became increasingly complex. By adopting 11:11 Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions, they transformed a fragmented environment into a scalable, cost-effective platform—achieving 25% savings while establishing a foundation for future modernization.
Switchers and Routers and Firewalls, Oh my!
When each acquisition brings its own set of carrier contracts and connectivity solutions, IT sprawl becomes inevitable. Individual circuits are purchased from multiple providers, often at retail rates negotiated site-by-site. There’s no centralized view of what you’re paying, when contracts renew, or how performance compares across locations.
This decentralized approach creates several problems:
Budget unpredictability: Without aggregated purchasing power, you’re paying more than necessary. Legacy contracts lock you into terms that no longer align with current market rates or business needs.
Limited scalability: Entering new states or regions means starting from scratch with new carriers, new procurement cycles, and new points of failure.
Operational complexity: Your team spends valuable time managing vendor relationships, tracking renewals, and troubleshooting connectivity issues across multiple platforms—time that could be spent on strategic initiatives.
Security gaps: When network equipment like switches, routers, and firewalls are managed inconsistently across sites, vulnerabilities emerge. Third-party support may be unreliable, leaving critical infrastructure without adequate monitoring or maintenance.
For organizations in high-growth mode, these issues compound quickly. Every new location adds another layer of complexity, and the cost—both financial and operational—escalates.
Transforming a Fragmented Environment with 11:11 NaaS
11:11 NaaS solutions provide a centralized, predictable approach to connectivity that scales alongside your business. Rather than managing dozens of individual carrier contracts, you gain a single platform that handles circuit aggregation, monitoring, and management across all locations.
Our facilities customer started with a pilot deployment at a single site. The goal was straightforward: prove that 11:11 could deliver reliable connectivity at a better price point than their existing carrier arrangements. Once that test site validated the value, expansion happened rapidly: within months, more than eight additional locations were brought onto the platform.
Here’s how 11:11 addressed their specific challenges:
Centralized circuit management: All connectivity was consolidated under one provider, eliminating the need to juggle multiple vendor relationships. This gave IT full visibility into every circuit, with proactive renewal tracking and performance monitoring built in.
Cost reduction: By aggregating spend and leveraging 11:11’s carrier relationships, the customer reduced connectivity costs by about 25% compared to their previous contracts. Those savings freed up budget for other modernization efforts.
Scalable infrastructure: As new acquisitions came online, adding locations to the 11:11 platform became a repeatable, streamlined process. No more negotiating from scratch with regional carriers or managing fragmented support agreements.
End-to-end network management: Beyond connectivity, 11:11 took on the monitoring, maintenance, and security of network equipment, including switches, routers, and firewalls. This provided consistent coverage across all sites and removed gaps left by unreliable third-party support.
The result was a network environment that could keep pace with aggressive M&A plans without increasing operational burden or ballooning costs.
Ensuring Your Network Keeps Pace with Growth
Rapid acquisitions demand infrastructure that can scale without adding complexity or cost. When each new location brings its own connectivity contracts and support agreements, IT sprawl becomes inevitable and expensive.
11:11 NaaS solutions offer a streamlined and reliable alternative to relying on multiple vendors. By consolidating circuits, cutting costs, and managing network equipment end-to-end, it enables IT teams to focus on strategic priorities instead of juggling vendor coordination.
If your organization is navigating an aggressive expansion plan, or other networking challenges, it’s worth evaluating how a unified NaaS platform could simplify operations and support long-term growth.
We’d be happy to walk you through this customer’s journey in more detail and explore how the same approach could benefit your network environment.
