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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
The only time any of these figures makes sense be it 80,90,95% is if an upgrade is ready to go at a push of a button but with it taking VM dozens of months it should actually probably be an ongoing process so when one upgrade is done start on the next. Funny the two largest transit providers in the UK for broadband both dont have a clue on capacity planning, BT and VM.
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If I wanted to be pedantic, I'd state that none of those figures make sense on their own. I dare say that even in the worst areas, "90%" utilisation rarely occurs because utilisation alone is almost meaningless without something else to correlate it. I.e. if a connection sits at 20% utilisation between midnight and 5pm during the week but skyrockets to 100% between 5pm and 10pm, then it's not going to have 90% utilisation overall but (in my opinion) needs capacity relief anyway.
Part of Virgin's issue (in my opinion) is the second figure is far too high even at 10%. I would happily tolerate 99% utilisation once in a blue moon, during a critical event or something but it shouldn't go above 90% more than 5% of the time.