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Interface math calculator

How many interfaces does point-to-point actually cost you, against routing through a layer? Run it on your own estate size.

12

Count everything: ERP, CRM, WMS, billing, the data platform, each partner EDI link, the reporting tool nobody owns.

6,000/hr

Fully loaded, including the people who get pulled in when a partner feed breaks on a Sunday.

Point-to-point

66

interfaces to build, test and own

Through a layer

12

and one place to govern them

At 12 systems, point-to-point means 54 more interfaces than routing through a layer.

At a conservative 24 hours of upkeep per interface per year, that is 1,296 hours — about 77,76,000 a year, before anyone builds anything new.

The upkeep figure is an assumption, not a measurement — change it in your head if yours is different. The interface counts are not assumptions: n(n−1)/2 against n is arithmetic, and it is why estates that grew one urgent project at a time become impossible to change.