Bottlenecks and link upgrades

Fri Aug 14 23:45:56 UTC 2020

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 12:31, Mark Tinka wrote:
> I'm confident everyone (even the cheapest CFO) knows the consequences of
> congesting a link and choosing not to upgrade it.

I think you're over-confident.

> It's great to monitor packet loss, latency, pps, e.t.c. But packet loss
> at 10% link utilization is not a foreign occurrence. No amount of
> bandwidth upgrades will fix that.

That, plus the fact that by the time delay becomes an indication of congestion, it's way too late to start an upgrade. That event should not occur.