Bottlenecks and link upgrades

Tue Aug 18 14:50:49 UTC 2020

On 15/Aug/20 10:47, Etienne-Victor Depasquale wrote:

> I've seen the weekly profiles of traffic sourced from caches for the
> major global services (video, social media, search and general) for a
> specific metro area.
>
> For all services, the weekly profile is a repetition of the daily
> profile, within +/- 20%. 
> That is: the weekly profile is obtained from the daily profile
> within +/- 20% of the average daily profile height.
>
> Given this regularity, as suggested by Louie Lee, then it seems that
> growth projections are meaningful.
> That is, the weely profile data, seem to provide a sound empirical
> basis for link upgrades.
>
> Since I'm not an operator, my comments need to be sprinkled with a
> pinch of salt :)

Provided your NMS has been stable over any period of time, you can
extract historical data over 1 year or more and see how linearly things
grew.

It's difficult to sometimes see the growth rate when you are close to
the daily action.

Mark.