The 70% "rule of thumb" is in many network design treatises. I know because
I put it there. ;-) I put it in the initial Designing Cisco Networks course
which grew a life of its own and the "rule" got listed in all sorts of
design books after that.
I got it from years of consulting for Network
Don't know that you will find any such "hard" doc but remember link
utilizations are percentages over a variable time. Data traffic has
wide variations with temporary large peaks or bursts. When you start
getting high averages you don't have much room for these bursts and you
start dropping pack
One thing to keep in mind..
A percentage can lie about network performance. If you take a network with a
low percentage of "traffic" based on byte count but a high number of small
packets ( Citrix), you can easily have an overloaded router/switch but
without the gross load on the wire you might e
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Subject: RE: Network utilization levels... [7:21884]
One thing to keep in mind..
A percentage can lie about network performance. If you take a network with a
low percentage of "traffic" based on byte count but a high number of small
packets ( Citrix), you can easily have an overloa
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Chuck Larrieu
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Subject: RE: Network utilization levels... [7:21884]
what were your recommendations to alleviate the problem? what was the router
model that was
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