Scenario 2Utilizations

Scenario 2” Utilizations

In Figure C.2, you are looking at routers in another hub and spoke network. The administrators of the routers in these four cities have recently used the show process cpu command on the routers and determined their average utilization. Looking at the utilization percentages of these four routers, which of them needs to be upgraded?

Figure C.2. The Average router utilizations from routers in four cities.

A router that is slow on its processing times is basically a better doorstop than a router in your network. Depending on the type of router, Cisco recommends that a router operating above 65 to 70 percent average utilization needs to be upgraded. If you go by the Cisco recommendations, this means that both the routers in Atlanta and Boise need to be upgraded or replaced .