Metrics the Effectiveness of a Network

Metrics the Effectiveness of a Network

John Berka

NETW420

Enterprise Network Management

Metrics the Effectiveness of a Network

How do you measure the effectiveness of your network? Does it work, sure can you get to places you need to on the network of course. But know better benchmarks can help your revenues, total cost of ownership, and help you maintain your network a stable platform for business. The baselines called metrics are used to help give a basic idea of effective your network is and help prevent problems as well as lower your costs.

According to our text book the Network Management Fundamentals by Clemm, Alexander network management can affect your business in the following ways

* The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a network.

* Revenues are generated from communication services within an enterprise organization.

* Properties of the network itself increase in value when equated to factors such as network availability.

Using the above ideas if you reduce your total cost of ownership you can gain revenue due to additional opportunities and also increase the value of the work all of which will help your revenues.

So how do we measure the network effectiveness to help lower the total cost of ownership according to our lecture material this can be done in several ways determining the operator productivity, network management's impact on revenue, reliability and availability of the network, and its services [ (DeVry Univeristy ) ].

When measuring operator productivity metric you can look at how many devices operators ports that a network operator can support this can be done through tracking the trouble tickets and how quickly they get resolved.

Measuring the network management's impact on revenue can be done looking at how many customers that were lost over a set amount of time and why, how quickly you can fill orders and how many are back logged, is there a service provider that is not living up to their service...