That depends on the network configuration though. If you have redundant links and one link is at 65% and the other is at 35% or more you won't be able to get through a circuit flap or outage without dropping packets. 2011/11/17 Karl Clapp <kclapp@staff.gwi.net>
Ideally, when our 95th-percentile hits 65% utilization, we begin the pricing and planning process and its up on peoples radar. Once the 95th-percentile hits 80-85% we start planning the maintenance and execute the upgrades. I say ideally, because in a perfect world this would happen 100% of the time.
We try to upgrade when the 95th is at 80-85%, because the 95th-percentiles is based off 5-min polls, so I am sure traffic is spiking higher at peak times.
Cheers..
~Karl
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Bielawa, Daniel Walter < dwbielawa@liberty.edu> wrote:
Greetings, My team is in the process of putting some documentation together to justify a bandwidth upgrade. I am asking if you would be willing to reply back to me, with how you decide that it is time to upgrade your bandwidth. On-line or off-line reply's will be acceptable.
Thank You
Daniel Bielawa Network Engineer Liberty University Network Services
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