From Congestion to Stability: The Role of LAG & Load Balancing in Capacity Planning
Essence: When traffic is above 70% it’s congestion and performance degradation, need to increase capacity. To achieve this adding more links to the existing Link Aggregation Group (LAG) increases bandwidth, distributes traffic better and ensures network stability. This prevents bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization and redundancy, reduces the risk of service disruptions. Expanding LAG allows scaling without downtime, so it’s a must have for handling growing network demands and high traffic environments. Link Aggregation in Capacity Planning Link Aggregation (LAG) is part of capacity planning by combining multiple physical links into one logical link to increase bandwidth, redundancy and overall network performance. This prevents congestion by distributing traffic across multiple links, ensures optimal resource utilization. In capacity planning LAG allows network engineers to scale bandwidth without additional infrastructure changes, so it’s cost effective. Also, it p...