Silver Peak White Paper Sample

When you purchase a high-speed WAN circuit you buy access to all the available bandwidth on that circuit. To understand how much of that capacity you actually use you first need to know your effective throughput, which is the number of bits per second successfully delivered from source to destination for an individual data flow.

Once you know your effective throughput, you need to analyze it relative to the total available bandwidth by calculating the effective throughput ratio. This entails dividing effective throughput by total available bandwidth. The effective throughput ratio tells you how much of the total available bandwidth your single flow uses.