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> It would be a statistically unlikelihood. TRUST ME, they do the math on this. Is that really how it works? I was working for a small-town ISP and our approa
by anticristi 5y ago
> It would be a statistically unlikelihood. TRUST ME, they do the math on this.
Is that really how it works?
I was working for a small-town ISP and our approach was: Boss link A is at 50% and will fill up within a month. Shall upgrade the converters?
I mean, you could argue that we did math, i.e., linear prediction on statistical aggregate values, but this was not synced with sales or marketing, rather done out-of-band.
- vel0city 5y ago50% of actual usage or subscribed throughput?
- anticristi 5y ago50% of actual usage. We had no integration between NOC and sales, so we had no clue about subscribed throughput. Also, network topology -- e.g. redundant paths -- made the mapping between customers and network pretty tricky. I'm talking here about access network and core network, not last mile.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoThe contractor I was with, yes, definitely. It sounds from your other comment it was a smaller ISP you were at. We definitely had the data from NOC and Sales and watched them figure out what hardware they would need for the next few quarters based on their oversubscribe estimations. Edit: lol; I worked in telecom. I’m sorry first hand experiences make some of you so mad.