Implement QoS/Bandwidth Management or Upgrade Bandwidth?

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Published on 2011-06-21T01:45:43Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 1:59 UTC
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A question that I'm faced with currently. Here's my setup:

Cisco ASA 5510 15Mbps Internet Connection @ $1350/month

The bandwidth was originally meant for 35-45 people but we've grown quite quickly to roughly 60-65 people. Needless to say, when I check bandwidth logs it's almost always spiked at 15Mbps.

I did use Wireshark to do some poking around to see what was hogging up our bandwidth but with everything running through CDNs and Cloud Services it proved difficult to get a good grasp of where our bandwidth was going. So the question is do I ONLY implement bandwidth management through ASA OR upgrade the Internet to 50Mbps ($1600/month) and then implement bandwidth management through ASA?

Any suggestions on how to segment the 15Mbps connection if we decided ONLY to go with the bandwidth management solution? Thanks.

UPDATE 1 Installed PRTG and used packet content to monitor the traffic. As I suspected still pretty vague. My Top Connections include the following:

a204-2-160-16.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com ec2-50-16-212-159.compute-1.amazonaws.com a204-2-160-48.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com a72-247-247-133.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com mediaserver-sv5-t1-1.pandora.com

Other than the Pandora destination, the rest doesn't tell me much on how to properly control the bandwidth.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.

M

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