When is adding bandwidth a good idea?
Are you considering adding more bandwidth? Are you looking to avoid an unnecessary bandwidth upgrade? Or do you want to ensure that the bandwidth upgrade is allocated to ensure the best results for critical applications?
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| Ron Barrett is the founder of RARE-TECH, an IT training and consulting company. Ron is a specialist in network, security and IT management infrastructure. Be sure to catch Ron's daily blog, "A Better Windows World," on Network World's Microsoft subnet. |
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What an organization is looking to get out of bandwidth management changes how you will approach the project. If these questions arise, it is important to provide a product or service that can possibly aggregate all the available bandwidth. Sometimes in the midst of a deployment, we come to realize that the planning that was done did not address an overlooked or previously unknown bottleneck. Perhaps a database that feeds information between branch offices is overlooked. How you then address this bump in the road will depend on the organization's view of this question.
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