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have different meanings. For example, an average utilization of 20 percent means that over
some period of time (e.g., a 10-hour period), on average, 20 percent of the LAN’s capacity
is used for successfully transmitting data. On the other hand, a 20 percent peak utilization
means that at a specific moment in time, 20 percent of the LAN’s capacity was utilized.
Associated with the concept of utilization is throughput, which is a measure of the amount
of data transmitted between two nodes in a given time period (see Chapter 4). Throughput
and utilization are the same except they use different units ...