Does your network reach capacity at similar times every day? If so, before you decide to add more bandwidth at additional cost, think about adjusting traffic patterns at no cost.
As a first step, consider using a network monitoring tool to baseline the most common time periods when your network is at capacity. With this critical information, you can take some pro-active steps to optimize your network traffic.
Move maintenance tasks such as back-ups, updates, source control synchronization and large file transfers to off peak periods to decrease the load on the network.
If you can’t alter the timeline for maintenance tasks, encourage users to schedule bandwidth intensive tasks (video teleconferencing and webcasts) that are not time sensitive to business operations to off peak periods. Most users want the best possible viewing experience and will appreciate being able to schedule online events to take advantage of improved network availability.
Of course, if you don’t have flexibility to adjust traffic patterns to optimize the network, it may be time to add more bandwidth.
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