Paul, What is your Guaranteed rate? How many Subs (max) do you have on any given sector? And of course, what is the burst rate?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 11:09 AM > > *To:* [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] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Sam Lambie > *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 9:51 AM > *To:* [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> > -- -- *Sam Lambie* Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com>
