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Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Evans)
Wed Jan 7 16:03:08 2015

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:02:59 -0800
From: "Bob Evans" <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com>
To: "Roy Hirst" <rhirst@xkl.com>
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Thanks to those of you that answered...It is hypothetical....However, I
found another customer that uses Office 365 heavily ... said they
discovered 1 meg/sec per Microsoft Office 365 user works well in most
scenarios.  This customer has 80 users and a 100 meg/sec connection with
us.

Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO



>> On 1/6/2015 12:37 PM, Bob Evans wrote:
>>> I have a customer that heavily uses Microsoft Office 365. It's
>>> hosted. All
>>> the data I see about usage per user appears theoretical. In that the
>>> formulas assume people are taking turns using the bandwidth as if
>>> there is
>>> a patient line of packets at the Internet gas pump. Nobody is
>>> clicking at
>>> the same time. We all know that is not the real world.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience with Office 365 hosted that can tell me
>>> the practical bandwidth allocation (NOT in KB per month, but in
>>> megabits/sec) for 100 users (during normal work hours) needs to be
>>> available ?
>>>
>>> Thank You in advance,
>>> Bob Evans
>>> CTO Fiber Internet Center
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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