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How much bandwidth is too much for your business

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

For its business applications ”” decides to comment on how much bandwidth is needed? Is T1, DS3 or OC3 or greater? Do you have an excess of possibilities to take account of new situations? What is the approach to modeling that is used to calculate the minimum and maximum load, and therefore need to rely on their line? What determines how much is “enough”?

I suggest you answer these questions as the implementation of an end’ The pieces are workplace communication link (s), server, database and supporting systems (eg, DNS)’

Then the child’s important to remember that users perform tasks’ Any analysis based on the concept of task’ In addition, specific tasks in all the different applications, probably because the type of user, their usefulness to study the frequency of specific tasks by user groups’

Each task can be viewed in terms of time’ The total time is divided between the parties’ Before worrying about bandwidth, you must determine that the time spent on each task’ Do not consider the user action in the task of analysis – the keyboard is better with the script to eliminate this variable, and output is achieved when the full screen or printing’

The aspect of communication is influenced by the amount of data transferred, the amount of overhead of communication, bedload, packet size, protocol, latency and bandwidth’

Although there are many “favorite” tools to expedite the analysis, can be accomplished with a spreadsheet, a tool for capturing packets, and a knowledge of scripting’

There are general, you can follow this evolution’

First, while the choice of demand, most still have not found the application to improve performance across the bandwidth in the task of about 750KB’ Most do not improve once the bandwidth reaches 200Kb’ Additional bandwidth becomes an issue for many users’ Second, most applications do not suffer from slow performance to the average total exceeds 80%’

The best time to define the bandwidth requirements are being implemented for development’ The reason is that most applications can adapt to playing with much less traffic, while still in development, and traffic is often a good indication of other problems such as poor database structure or distribution best’ The second best time is an application before purchase’ Often, two similar applications have very different WAN, and this may be a key decision criteria’

Therefore, the amount of bandwidth is too much? If you can rent today have less and reduce your costs, you have too’

I strongly suggest not to enter into discussions with the supplier of broadband, while the decision on their bandwidth’ It is more likely to focus on “making a sale” that will help you with your infrastructure decisions’ Instead, seek advice from an independent unbiased broker’ It can guide you through the process of finding a solution that makes the most sense for you and your organization’