Companies are focusing on network expansion to meet future demands, with a trend toward utilizing IoT to increase agility and flexibility. The bandwidth of large networks require a smart strategy to optimize network performance and reliably support hundreds of mission-critical devices. These considerations often overlap with additional challenges relating to the cost of IT operations. It’s imperative that organizations identify and address the problems that have the most impact on growth and efficiency.
This consolidated system requires optimized network bandwidth to facilitate the successful proliferation of media files, immense amounts of data generated through IoT devices and large programs. Otherwise, networks can suffer from latency issues that can slow down data transfers and applications. Similarly, data bottlenecks caused by poor network architecture or slow-switch ports that don’t match the server speed can lead to traffic congestion for the server.
Prioritizing bandwidth utilization and a watchful, proactive approach to underperforming devices and network traffic is key to eliminating latency and bottlenecks. It may also be helpful to remove unused protocols, such as IPV6, IPX Network Client, NetBios, LLMNR and PGM. These inactive protocols can often consume bandwidth unnecessarily.
