Computer Simulation of Port Utilizations

(resulting from 24 successive capacity upgrades spanning 3 years)

• Each snapshot (animation frame) was taken when the next capacity upgrade was required
• Growth in port utilization was driven by traffic growing at an overall rate of 50% per year
• Overall benefits of DTI’s method include:
• Ports approximately level-loaded most of the time
• Very few ports ever over-utilized
• Reliable remediation of the few over-utilized ports
• 42% fewer ports needed at the end of the 3 years

Utilizations using DTI-optimized NCPs

• Ports rarely over-utilized
• Over-utilized ports always remedied
• Required number of ports grew from 36 to 100
• 3-year growth in the number of ports (2.87X) was smaller than the growth in traffic (3.4X)