> > In my view, it is one for the customer to deal with though*, if they > ordered a 10Mbit pipe, don't blame me if you point 20Mbit of traffic at > it and the results aren't as expected. > > * Except managed services, obviously
I think you often find that when you examine what the traffic is that alot of customers have a "heart attack". We've done some analysis with customers with large pipes into the network when they are reaching capacity and you find alot of weird and wonderful stuff going on. One of the drivers for a peak during the day was a syncronisation of a backup set to a remote storage company (moving this to out of hours took 20M of the peak traffic). You then have the dilemma of questionable user traffic. At lunchtime you'd see the traffic levels to youtube etc rise significantly, with some flow shaping you can make significant savings in bandwidth on this. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. [email protected]
