Just passed 12,000 connected devices on our campus network and it threw me off

I knew we were growing but seeing that number in the dashboard actually made me pause. Has anyone else had their bandwidth planning thrown way off by unexpected device growth?

3 comments

3 Comments

beth_sanchez472mo ago

Man, I used to think 5,000 was a lot until we hit 8,000 and the network just died.

lisa6712mo ago

Our network actually handled 12,000 users at a local event last week without breaking a sweat, so your mileage may vary depending on the hardware. Maybe the real bottleneck was your router, not the number of devices.

the_evan1mo ago

Was your IT team properly segmenting traffic by device type? We had a similar jump and found that isolating IoT stuff from regular devices made a huge difference.