Bandwidth Upgrade

Karl Clapp kclapp at staff.gwi.net
Thu Nov 17 16:18:07 UTC 2011


Very true.. It is an open-ended question that can have many answers,
especially without knowing their design...


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Keegan Holley
<keegan.holley at sungard.com>wrote:

> 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 at 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 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
>> >
>> > LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
>> > 40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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