09-18-2012 05:34 PM - edited 03-04-2019 05:36 PM
Is there a bandwidth utilization percentage that is considered "healthy?" We run our WAN link at 99% utilization. The QoS should be doing its job and dropping less critical packets.
Vince
09-19-2012 04:15 AM
99 or even 100 is fine, if you can accept network slowness.
09-19-2012 11:21 AM
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Really depends on the nature of the traffic. Bulk data transfers that are transferred fast enough to finish within a time window are generally fine running a link at 100%. Latency sensitive traffic, might require as little as about 1/3 utilization (not counting QoS de-prioritized latency insensitive traffic utilization).
09-20-2012 02:27 PM
Thanks guys. I was just curious if it was something like CPU where you want to keep it less than 80% to protect the hardware. I was worried there was a risk of the port melting.
vince
09-20-2012 03:38 PM
remember, its full duplex so you have the same capacity send as you do receive.
09-20-2012 09:30 PM
No, there is no such risk. These are routers not combustion engines.
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