<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Just my curiosity. May I ask how we can measure the link capacity loading? What does it mean by a 50%, 70%, or 90% capacity loading? Load sampled and measured instantaneously, or averaging over a certain period of time (granularity)?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>These are questions have bothered me for long. Don't know if I can ask about these by the way. I take care of the radio access network performance at work. Found many things unknown in transport network.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best regards,</div><div>Taichi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:54 PM Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.com">mark.tinka@seacom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>At what point do commercial ISPs upgrade links in their
backbone as well as peering and transit links that are
congested? At 80% capacity? 90%? 95%? </p>
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We start the process at 50% utilization, and work toward completing
the upgrade by 70% utilization.<br>
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The period between 50% - 70% is just internal paperwork.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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