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Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades
From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 01:12:39 +0200
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, at 09:31, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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%?
Some reflections about link capacity: At 90% and over, you should panic. Between 80% and 90% you should be (very) scared. Between 70% and 80% you should be worried. Between 60% and 70% you should seriously consider speeding up the upgrades that you effectively started at 50%, and started planning since 40%. Of course, that differs from one ISP to another. Some only upgrade after several months with at least 4 hours a day, every day (or almost) at over 95%. Others deploy 10x expected capacity, and upgrade well before 40%.
Current thread:
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades, (continued)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Mark Tinka (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Baldur Norddahl (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Mike Hammett (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Baldur Norddahl (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Tom Beecher (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Aug 14)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Etienne-Victor Depasquale (Aug 13)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Louie Lee via NANOG (Aug 14)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Etienne-Victor Depasquale (Aug 15)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Baldur Norddahl (Aug 15)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Aug 15)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Etienne-Victor Depasquale (Aug 15)
- Re: Bottlenecks and link upgrades Mark Tinka (Aug 18)