Alexander Haväng Chief Technology Officer , Sandvine .
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In both cases , the best thing is to defer CapEx until you know it ’ s the perfect time . But monitoring utilisation on a port doesn ’ t give adequate information about when the port will hit 100 %, or in a mobile network , when subscriber bandwidth will drop below something like 3 mbps .
Sometimes , to make an operation profitable , you can run an interface hot rather than going for a full interface or upgrade . If you see a streaming video experience goes from “ awesome ” to “ very good ” at a certain level of utilisation , you don ’ t necessarily have to upgrade .
“ Sometimes , to make an operation profitable , you can run an interface hot rather than going for a full interface or upgrade ”
ALEXANDER HAVÄNG CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER , SANDVINE mobile-magazine . com 103