Bandwidth Upgrade

Thu Nov 17 15:54:51 UTC 2011

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 at 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
>
> (434)592-7987
>
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