Alexander Haväng Chief Technology Officer, Sandvine.
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In both cases, the best thing is to defer CapEx until you know it’ s the perfect time. But monitoring utilisation on a port doesn’ t give adequate information about when the port will hit 100 %, or in a mobile network, when subscriber bandwidth will drop below something like 3 mbps.
Sometimes, to make an operation profitable, you can run an interface hot rather than going for a full interface or upgrade. If you see a streaming video experience goes from“ awesome” to“ very good” at a certain level of utilisation, you don’ t necessarily have to upgrade.
“ Sometimes, to make an operation profitable, you can run an interface hot rather than going for a full interface or upgrade”
ALEXANDER HAVÄNG CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, SANDVINE sandvine. com 11