Improving Circuit Capacity
Upgrade to a faster protocol
- Means upgrading the NICs and possible cables
- Examples:
- Upgrading the network from 10Base-T to 100Base-T
- Upgrading the segment to the server from 10Base-T to 100Base-T
Increase number of segments to server
- Adding additional NIC cards to the servers
- Increasing the number of ways to access to server
- Ideal number of NICs/server = 3
- More NICs may affect server’s processing capacity