
16 ◾ The Performance Mapping and Measurement Handbook
importance in a network, due to their associated throughput volumes, their
strategic position or location in a network (such as a “hub” node), or some
other critical parameter, are termed primate nodes. The loss of a primate
node in a physical network can have an especially negative impact on over-
all enterprise- wide functioning and performance.
A link is a physical or abstract transport route or flow path that connects
or “links” nodes together. A link represents the movement of inventory
between two nodes in either a unidirectional or a bidirectional manner.
Pipelines, power transmissi ...