Bandwidth Management!

They say a country resonates the will of its people; their lifestyle and habits. When you compare the physical infrastructure of the network of roads, bridges, overpasses and routes around the country, with the virtual network of switches, MANs, WANs, nodes and hubs, there are striking similarities.

How so, you ask? The management of the flow of physical traffic requires you to employ the same loadsharing or loadbalancing techniques to optimize the use of bandwidth (the number of cars traveling down the road at that time). The peeve of many drivers is the lack of space for proper bus stops or service roads that presently block the flow over any one pathway. The lack of physical space to allow for alternate nodes and routes for traffic to flow is obviously a challenge but something that the city governments and city planners must overcome through proper strategic planning.

The number of hops it takes to travel from the point of origin to the destination; the speed of traffic and travel; size, space… it’s all relative and all comparable.

Believe it or not, there is a lot the managers of both (offline and online) can learn from one another and, more importantly, teach each other.