How to measure network equipment usage effectiveness?

Hi all, may I know how you guys measure the network equipment usage effectiveness? In what situation you will buy new network equipment instead of using the existing equipment? Any clue to share? Should we only upgrade/replace the equipment once the max PPS is reached? Is there any tools other

Re: How to measure network equipment usage effectiveness?

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:29:16 -, Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia) said: Hi all, may I know how you guys measure the network equipment usage effectiveness? (...) Is there any tools other there can measure this? Step 0: Define effectiveness. The problem is that quite often, decisions on whether to