[131986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current trends in capacity planning and oversubscription
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Nov 10 15:16:13 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C8C1@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:16:00 -0500
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:40 56PM, George Bonser wrote:
>> From: Steve Meuse > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:31 AM
>> To: Michael Loftis
>> Cc: nanog
>> Subject: Re: Current trends in capacity planning and oversubscription
>>
>> Michael Loftis expunged (mloftis@wgops.com):
>>>
>>> Actually...I'm not sure anywhere has that high of a ratio here in
> the
>>> states, at least for wired connectivity.
>>
>> I would say that's highly dependent on your geographical location. In
>> Montana I could see that as being true, but not in NYC, for example...
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> I'd say it also depends on the nature of studies at the school, too. A
> general liberal arts school might have different needs than one heavy on
> science and engineering. Throw in some specialized resource like a
> radio telescope or nuclear research lab and it changes even more as
> those research data are shared among other collaborators at other
> institutions.
>
It also depends on how much file-sharing the students are doing...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
