Section 18 in The Quality Of Service Of Broadband Service Regulations, 2006
18. The Authority has considered the deliberations of the core group while fixing the benchmarks for this parameter and decided that the service providers are required to monitor the bandwidth utilization during Time Consistent Busy Hours (TCBH) for all network link(s)/route. ISPs/ Service Providers shall report to TRAI the bandwidth utilization (loading) of all the upstream links going to IGSP/NIXI with Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG). However, for local links/intra-network links the service provider need to report, only, exceptions having loading more than 80%. In case there is more than one link, then the average utilization of all the route links should not exceed 90% of loading level for a period of at least one month. The broadband service provider is required to make provision for additional bandwidth if the bandwidth utilization of the network links exceeds the 90% loading level for a period of at least one month. Average utilization of bandwidth in a route means utilization of bandwidth capacity on all the links of the route. For example, if there are 3 links consisting of one link of 34 Mbps, two links of 155 Mbps each, in a route from ISP gateway to IGSP then the total bandwidth available in the route is 344 Mbps (34+'155+155) and 90% of loading means bandwidth utilization of 309.06 Mbps.
MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY FOR LINK BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION/THROUGHPU:
