what does" evaluate against" mean?
I saw this sentence in a text and I don't understand what does evaluate against mean?
"the user throughput is evaluated against number of users in the cell. "
Thanks for the answer.

Question

what does" evaluate against" mean?
I saw this sentence in a text and I don't understand what  does evaluate against mean? 
"the user throughput is evaluated against number of users in the cell. "
Thanks for the answer.

Answer

It's saying that one must consider the number of users in the cell when judging the the throughput.

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