I think we do what you are describing. Burst (up to XX) amount and then GUARANTEED sustain bandwidth as well. The Sustained value helps us calculate/ protect the predictability and the capacity asset of the AP
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450 AP and CIR. Travis did something that guaranteed a certain amount of CIR to the customer as I recall. He was pretty successful. I don’t recall exactly how he set it up. From: Sterling Jacobson<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 11:09 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450 AP and CIR. My last company we did exactly that. Lower SM to AP count and stacked AP’s for redundancy and maintenance. Worked very well. Customers liked the burst, understanding that it went lower during peak times. As I understand it, when there are more SM’s with CIR that exceed the bandwidth of the AP, then it just falls back to best effort. In other words, if all are priority CIR, then none are priority anymore. They just end up in the same CIR pool which is then portioned out according to priority channels and regular best effort queues. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Lambie Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 9:51 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] 450 AP and CIR. We are looking at other ways to sell bandwidth. Looking at the big guys and how their speeds are all over the map during peak times, but you seem to get a decent chunk of the pie during peak times is interesting as a business model. What if you sell up to 30 mbps with a CIR of 2 mbps, leave all the SM's at unlimited throttling. That way if a customer is one of the only users on the AP sucking down bandwidth, they would see the 30 mbps. Makes them happy to see very fast speeds during non peak times. Obviously, during peak times, 7pm to 12 am, they would be guaranteed their 2 mbps. Kind of like what Verizon and ATT do in bigger cities. - Has anyone done something like this? Does it work well? - How well does the AP handle load balancing as subscribers use the available wireless bandwidith? We would like to stack AP's to lower the overall SM count on each AP to keep the CIR within available bandwidth. Say, put max 40 users on each AP at 2 mbps CIR. - If one of the stacked AP's fails and the SM's jump to the other one, what happens if the CIR is greater than the sum of the AP? -- -- Sam Lambie Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com<http://www.newmex.com>
