[131979] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Current trends in capacity planning and oversubscription
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John van Oppen)
Wed Nov 10 12:03:12 2010
From: John van Oppen <jvanoppen@spectrumnet.us>
To: 'Michael Loftis' <mloftis@wgops.com>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:03:06 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Hc0b3HqTNWrMHrCSMXgzf0LKbH0+Y2aMX5PUZ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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I am on the technology committee of the college I attended (Whitman) and th=
ey currently have a 200 mbit/sec via gigE link for a campus of just under 2=
000 and every building has at least 1X gigE into their backbone. They ar=
e in a rural area (walla walla, wa) but they don't generally have more than=
100 or 150 mbit/sec of usage, fitting nicely in the below recommendations.=
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Loftis [mailto:mloftis@wgops.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:48 AM
To: Sean Donelan
Cc: nanog
Subject: Re: Current trends in capacity planning and oversubscription
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> While the answer is always it depends, I was wondering what the=20
> current rules of thumb university network engineers are using for=20
> capacity planning and oversubscription for resnets and admin networks?
>
> For K-12, SETDA (http://www.setda.org/web/guest/2020/broadband) is
> recommending:
>
> - An external Internet connection to the Internet Service Provider of=20
> at least 100 Mbps per 1,000 students/staff
> - Internal wide area network connections from the district to each=20
> school and between schools of at least 1 Gbps per 1,000 students/staff
>
> How does that compare with university and enterprise network rules of thu=
mb?
>
>
