What impacts could be expected if a portion of an organization’s network capacity is inadequate? How would you determine if an organization’s network capacity is adequate or inadequate?
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Network capacity is the amount of traffic that a network can handle at any given time. Network capacity planning is critical for optimal application performance. Under-provisioning of network resources leads to congestion—resulting in bad user experience, loss of productivity and negative business impact. Network resources like Memory & CPU utilization help determine adequacy or inadequacy of the network, higher the specs of these resources equate to higher network performance. Inadequate capacity planning can lead to the loss of the customer and business. Excess capacity can drain the company’s resources and prevent investments into more lucrative ventures.
Hi Shubham,
I agree what you said about insufficient network capacity leads to an extremely poor user experience will make the organization’s reputation bad. Insufficient network capacity will result in very slow network speed and even loss of data packets and important information. When users choose to leave negative social media posts to the organization, the organization will gradually lose its commercial competitiveness.
Capacity planning is the process of determining the network resources required to prevent a performance or availability impact on business or availability impact on business-critical applications. This process can be used to determine whether an organization’s network capacity is adequate or inadequate. Operations teams leverage network capacity planning to identify potential shortcomings, misconfigurations, or other parameters that could affect a network’s availability; network operations role in capacity planning is to understand key network metrics such as: types of network traffic, capacity of current network infrastructure, current network traffic volumes, etc. This network profile is useful to determine the maximum capacity of current resources and the impact of adding incremental resources to serve future requirements. If a portion of an organization’s network capacity is inadequate, you can expect business and customer loss. Failure to make the right decision in regards to when capacity should be increased and by how much can be especially damaging to the overall performance when time delays are present in the system.
The inadequate network capacity of an organization can cause business interruption. Inadequate network capacity will cause the client’s response time to be too long, data loss, and link timeout issues. This will give users a very bad experience. Organizations may be unable to effectively operate their business and accomplish business goals due to bad network capacity. Low work efficiency will affect the company’s business, reputation, and profits.
To determine whether the enterprise’s network capacity is adequate or not, organizations can use network diagnostic tools to test the network capacity and the amount of packet loss
Great point you added there Lin! Network Diagnostic and Performance tools can certainly avoid disruption to the business. These tools should be adopted and used frequently to monitor the performance and inadequacies should be diagnosed.
Network capacity planning is an ongoing process that involves continually assessing network utilization, traffic volumes, and traffic type to identify shortcomings that could cause performance chokepoints affecting the end-user’s experience and to identify when and where upgrades are needed. Network capacity planning is critical to service availability, reliability, business continuity and helps network managers achieve new world business objectives and consistent network availability and performance and in addition network capacity planning may also include planning for human resources that will manage and/or monitor the network.
Hi Oluwaseun,
Aside from network capacity planning, I also came across capacity management which is a term to describe IT monitoring, administration, and planning that can be taken to ensure that computing infrastructure has adequate resources to handle current data processing requirements and the capacity to accommodate future needs. The tools used for capacity management range from spreadsheets with manually compiled performance information to the “element managers” often included with computing devices to specialized software or hardware that provides extremely detailed insights into how computing components are functioning. I would think that this could also help an organization determine if their network capacity is adequate or not.