Performance Based Degradation definition
Performance Based Degradation means the function being measure to determine availability is slow or unable to respond as a direct result of an increase in activity placing demands for which the system (servers, software, application or network) was not designed. Performance based degradation is generally caused by (1) throughput limits of the server and application architecture design, (2) network congestion resulting from excessive throughput demands, and (3) network congestion within the Internet itself.