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White Paper 

Forecasting Traffic Growth and Impact with Cisco 
MATE Design 

Forecasting Scenarios for Planners, Engineers, and Operations 

What You Will Learn 

The ability to predict the impact of traffic growth is critical for planning and designing stable and resilient networks. 

Network planners, design engineers, and operators need precise, reliable, and fast network modeling tools to help 

model traffic trends, visualize growth, and determine when optimization and upgrades are necessary. Cisco

®

 MATE 

Design is an industry-leading solution for planning and designing IP/MPLS networks. It offers network planners, 

designers, and engineers the ability to: 

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View the impact of adding customers and services to the network infrastructure 

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Rapidly create models of future network-wide growth to plan the network infrastructure 

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Determine when optimization and upgrades will be necessary based on trending traffic data from Cisco 

MATE Live 

Planning for Additional Customers and Services 

Knowing the impact of adding customers or services to the network helps maintain a high average return per user 

(ARPU) and assists in rightsizing the network over time. 

A simple way to forecast growth on network infrastructure is to add traffic to and from a specific location. MATE 

Design helps enable you to simulate potential traffic in the network with demands. Each demand has a single 

source (node or external Autonomous System (AS), and an egress destination (node, external Autonomous 

System AS, or multicast destination). All demands are treated the same by the network. Simulation in MATE 

Design constantly examines traffic demands, network topology, element configuration, and state, and instantly 

updates the property tables and the Simulated Traffic view in the network plot. You can select, filter, and organize 

demands in the demands table. 

By adjusting the Simulated Traffic view (Figure 1) and modifying the information in the property tables, network 

planners can quickly see the impact of changes to any traffic demand, network topology, element configuration, or 

other object state. Upon modeling changes to the network, the simulated effects on the network infrastructure 

become immediately apparent.