You provision a fast link — and pay for it every month — but most data movers leave much of it unused. See how much of that bandwidth spend is idle, and how much Zettar puts back to work.
This is capacity value, not a refund — you pay the same monthly bill whether the link runs full or idle. What changes is how much data it moves; the hard cash savings come when filling the link lets you defer or cancel a bandwidth upgrade. It assumes the link is provisioned to move this data; your real ceiling is the whole end-to-end path, where Zettar realizes ~90%+ (over 96% in the SLAC/ESnet record). Get an exact estimate for your environment →
Zettar — Network-ROI business caseWhat Zettar returns: it realizes ~90%+ of the link you already pay for — so the same circuit moves several times more data, and a bandwidth upgrade you would otherwise buy can be deferred or avoided. Proven: 1 PB in 29 hours at 96% utilization with SLAC and the U.S. DOE.
Next step: zettar.com — schedule a demo for a measured estimate on your environment.
A 100 Gbps link that your mover fills to 30% is a 30 Gbps link you bought at full price — the other 70 Gbps is capacity you pay for and never use. Single-stream tools like rsync leave most of it idle; cloud-native paths lose 30–50% to overhead. Zettar is co-designed across storage, host, network, and software to run at line rate, so the bandwidth you already pay for actually moves data — often deferring the next expensive upgrade.
It is the share of your link's bill that bulk data movement can actually put to work. You pay for the whole pipe, but you realize only part of it today; the difference between what Zettar realizes (about 90%) and the effective speed you enter, applied to the annual cost of the link, is the stranded spend Zettar recovers. It assumes the link is provisioned to move this data.
Because a link bills the same whether it is full or idle. A 100 Gbps circuit filled to 30% is a 30 Gbps circuit bought at full price — the rest is capacity you pay for and never use. Single-stream tools like rsync, and cloud-native paths, leave most of the link idle; Zettar is co-designed to run at line rate and fill it.
Often, yes. If you realize 30% of your link today and Zettar realizes 90%, the same circuit moves about 3x more data — so the upgrade you were about to buy to get more throughput may be deferred or avoided entirely. The calculator shows that multiple, and you can download the result as a one-page business case.
Bring your link, your circuit cost, and your storage — we’ll show you what Zettar puts back to work, measured, not estimated.