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POCLAB TCO STUDIO
TCO calculators for modern architectures
Calculators for customer conversations
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Model total cost of ownership in minutes, not spreadsheets.

POCLAB TCO STUDIO gives you interactive calculators to benchmark architectures, pressure-test assumptions, and translate designs into clear TCO stories for customers.

Side-by-side TCO & $/edge / $/user / $/endpoint
Visual cost curves & break-even pricing
No login required for core tools
Who this is for
Built for architecture, presales, and GTM teams that need fast, directional TCO views without standing up a full spreadsheet model every time.
Calculators available
12 today
Typical horizon
3–7 year TCO
Domains covered
Access, WAN, SecOps, Data, Platform
Export-ready
Chart & $/unit views
Roadmap: save scenarios, share links, and export branded PDFs.
Available Calculators
Start with any calculator, adjust the defaults to match your environment, and use the TCO + cost curves to anchor the story.
APN vs Internet Edge Overlay TCO Calculator
Compare a private APN + VPN headend design against an internet-based edge overlay across edges, including APN data, overlay subscriptions, headend CAPEX/OPEX, and ops FTEs.
Quantify the move from
private APN to internet edge overlay.
APN Overlay Edges Break-even curve
Starlink Datacap vs Cellular Spillover Calculator
Model Starlink business plans with high-speed caps and overages against a “cap & spill” design that offloads overflow traffic from edges onto cheaper cellular.
Show when to offload
instead of paying overages.
Starlink Cellular Edges Cost curve
VPN vs ZTNA TCO Calculator
Compare legacy VPN headend costs against a ZTNA service across users, including licenses, infra, operations and helpdesk “VPN pain”.
Make the business case
for Zero Trust access.
VPN ZTNA Access Per-user TCO
MPLS vs SD-WAN TCO Calculator
Compare MPLS-based WAN against an internet + SD-WAN overlay, including bandwidth, circuits, SD-WAN licenses, CPE and FTEs across edges.
Show when SD-WAN
beats MPLS on TCO.
MPLS SD-WAN Edges Per-edge TCO
Next-Gen VPN vs SASE TCO Calculator
Compare a legacy VPN stack (gateway, agents, SWG) against a SASE access model across edges, including licenses, infra and helpdesk tickets.
Turn “VPN pain” into
a SASE TCO story.
VPN stack SASE Edges Per-edge TCO
NGFW vs Cloud/SASE FWaaS TCO Calculator
Compare datacenter NGFW + hairpinned traffic against cloud/SASE firewall-as-a-service across edges, including hardware, subscriptions, transit and FTEs.
Move the perimeter
from DC to cloud.
NGFW FWaaS Edges Per-edge TCO
SIEM vs MDR TCO Calculator
Compare in-house SIEM + SOC against MDR/XDR across endpoints, including ingest licensing, infra and analyst FTEs.
Frame the move from
SIEM build to MDR buy.
SIEM MDR/XDR SecOps Per-endpoint TCO
EDR vs XDR TCO Calculator
Compare an EDR + AV + MDM multi-agent stack against a unified XDR endpoint suite across endpoints, including licenses, ops FTEs and helpdesk tickets.
Turn agent sprawl
into a cost story.
EDR XDR Endpoints Per-endpoint TCO
DLP / Data Security vs Incident Cost Calculator
Compare the cost of DLP / data security controls against expected data loss incident costs across endpoints, combining control spend with avoided-loss assumptions.
Turn “we should buy DLP”
into an expected-cost story.
DLP Data loss Risk Expected cost
Microsegmentation vs Flat VLANs Calculator
Compare a flat VLAN + perimeter FW model against microsegmentation / zero-trust at the workload level, including software, infra and network/security ops FTEs.
Separate cost from
pure “security cool factor”.
Microseg Flat VLANs Workloads Per-workload TCO
Multi-Tool Stack vs Platform Calculator
Compare a set of separate tools (SWG, CASB, VPN/ZTNA, FWaaS) against a single-vendor platform across users, including license and operations TCO.
Put numbers behind
“platform consolidation”.
SWG CASB Platform Per-user TCO
Patch vs Virtual Patching Calculator
Compare traditional patch management effort against patch + virtual patching (IPS/WAF) across servers, including labor, downtime and control spend.
Show when controls
reduce patch load.
Patching Virtual patch Servers Per-server TCO