Slow Applications Despite Frequent Bandwidth Upgrades?

Poor application performance - here is a random pickcausing slow routing of traffic across the network.
of 3 problems from real-time experiences, that cannotYou will need to continuously monitor the router's
be identified using a bandwidth monitoring tool:memory, CPU, temperature and other hardware health
1) Poor Switch Performance - Excessive Backplaneparameters to ensure proper working. Having a
Utilizationnetwork change and configuration management
By monitoring your switch's backplane utilization, yousystem that alerts on any configuration changes on
get to know how much of the switch's maximumyour critical network devices will also help.
throughput is put to full use. High backplane utilization3) Traffic Delay Over WAN Links
will result in your switch ports receiving too much ofWhen you have applications being accessed across a
network traffic to further cause packet loss, discardsWAN, slight delay in a single WAN link will have huge
and slow applications. Many switches have thiseffects on application performance for the end user. It
parameter accessible via SNMP so most networkis important to continuously monitor delay, packet loss,
monitoring systems would be able to monitor, reportbandwidth consumption for each WAN link. One way
and alert the Network Administrator on excessiveof getting this information is by enabling Cisco IP SLA
backplane utilization.on Cisco routers and procuring network monitoring
2) Poor Router Performance - Configuration Changessolutions that leverage this technology to present
A flawed IOS update or configuration change on yourvaluable reports.
routers can result in drastic increase in memory,