Determining service group capacity based on an aggregate risk metric

Abstract

A computing system accesses actual aggregate service group utilization values that correspond to ones of a plurality of intervals over a first period of time and that identify an aggregate service group bandwidth utilization by cable modems in a service group at a plurality of intervals, the first period of time including multiple second periods of time having a same time duration, each second period of time having I ordinal intervals, and estimated aggregate service group utilization values that correspond to the actual aggregate service group utilization values. The computing system determines an additional bandwidth quantity for the service group such that an aggregate probability over a predetermined period of time that the plurality of cable modems will exceed a current provisioned bandwidth of the service group and the additional bandwidth quantity is within a desired probability range. A computing system sends, to a destination, the additional bandwidth quantity.

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