CItpSpLinkUtilization
deprecatedThis textual convention defines a range of percentages that represent the utilization of a link. Any value over 999 will be represented as 999. For SS7 links based on IP/SCTP the link capacity is not directly related to the interface speed used to transmit packets. This is different from serial and HSL links. The capacity of these types of links depend on the amount of resources available in the IP cloud. The IP cloud must be provisioned to support traffic for all SS7 links. In order to monitor link utilization on IP/SCTP based SS7 links a planned capacity must be specified. If this value is incorrectly estimated or traffic exceeds this expected value link utilization may exceed 100 percent. This is possible because the IP cloud may be provisioned with additional capacity or may discard less important traffic based on Qos parameters. When a SS7 link has not be configured for link utilization monitoring this value object will have a value of zero.