[146618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth Upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Nov 17 11:10:08 2011
In-Reply-To: <CADR=-a1KyLaJ3P4aP2AR36LmSDisiM-AmVdDKxbmTRDd7Sqj2A@mail.gmail.com>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:08:09 -0500
To: kclapp@staff.gwi.net
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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@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@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
> >
> >
>
>
