** Private ** wrote:
> Ok, I have not had a lot of luck in googling this. I need to know how
> to relate ATM capacity to ... anything.

If the label says it carries 155 Mbit/s (STM-1) it relates to 15.5 % of a 1 
Gbit/s ethernet connection :)


> We have 6 megs going out. Is
> this good, bad or indifferent? Is there anyone out there who can point
> me to a resource on this?

Bad :) 
EduCause, the ResNet Survey, ACUTA etc. all have survey results about how much 
bandwidth a campus has on average. I think even for the US a T2 is not much. 
(For comparison, in the Netherlands the median for a campus is 1 Gbit/s, and 
the average is even higher due to several campuses having redundant 10 Gbit/s 
connections.)


> It sounds ridiculously low, but the campus
> is functioning quite nicely.

I have a hard time believing a campus can function on 6 Mbps. It means that if 
one of the students downloads ColdFusion your connection is maxed out for 10 
minutes.


> The question is how much excess capacity
> we currently have.

excess capacity = nominal capacity - current usage

Jochem


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