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Forwarding tables, ACL resources and packet buffers can reach their limits despite low average link utilization, causing failures bandwidth monitoring can miss.
Network monitoring dashboards can show accurate data while creating a false belief that your network is healthy, even if important performance problems remain hidden.
Best practices exist for a reason, but gold plating your network by applying them all makes for a fragile, overly complicated system.
More bandwidth, more monitoring and more layers of protection do not automatically make a network more reliable. Knowing where the limits and risks actually sit helps you decide what to patch, what to simplify and where an upgrade will earn its keep.
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