[35238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Sizing Guidelines?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Mar 2 17:26:13 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:15:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
To: nanog@merit.org
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Daniel R Glover wrote:
> Can you point me to some current network sizing advice for Internet service
> (WAN and LAN)? I am looking for rules-of-thumb, guidelines, equations,
<snip>
> I've tried the related links off the NANOG pages, but some are old or
> broken. I have found some advice like "a T1 will support 200 to 300 28K
There's are two very simple rules:
- if you install it, they will use it
- you can never have too much bandwidth
More seriously, it really depends on what you're doing - an office full of
graphic artists needs a lot more bandwidth than an office full of
data entry clerks.
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