Get familiar with the metrics that you can use to monitor your switches and address issues with excess APs, over-allocated PoE, low uptime, and more. Definition: Switch throughput, or throughput rate, is the most important measure of network switch performance. It's defined as the maximal forwarding speed without loss of packets, typically measured in the form of packets each second (PPS/FPS) or bytes per second (bit/s Mbit/s, Gbit/s). Attention: To enhance troubleshooting experience for switches, two new switch port metrics namely Total Physical Port Error Rate and Total Logical Port Error Rate are available from. Metrics, Tools & Best Practices for IT Teams Network switches are the quiet workhorses of every modern IT environment. They route every packet, connect every device, and ultimately determine whether users experience fast, reliable applications or slow, unstable ones. Here I'll go into detail on the four key performance and cost drivers of any network switch (managed and unmanaged): ports & power over ethernet, switching capacity, buffer size, and the MAC address table.
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