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Projecting Network Growth 

Planners and engineers need to know what the network will look like over time to properly gauge the improvements 

and upgrades that are needed. MATE Design allows you to forecast future network growth. Using a simple dialog 

box, you can plot the growth rate for demands, interfaces, or groups of demands. 

Figure 4.    Create Growth Plans Tool 

 

Let’s take a look at a network operator who has determined that traffic is increasing by five percent every two 

weeks. For all demands, growth rates have been set to five percent. Using the Create Growth Plans tool, multiple 

plan files illustrating what the network will look like two, four, and six weeks from now are generated. To rapidly 

identify objects most at risk, the operator can use the Simulation Analysis tool and view the worst-case scenarios 

(Figure 5). With this information, the network operator can create a plan to modify the network to handle the 

increasing traffic.