it sounds incredibly tiny, yes. Which is why I am asking. Surely we would have made the entire thing collapse already with the distance education we are already doing. I don't know a lot about ATM... I was wondering if it had some sort of built-in compression or something. So far all I have found is that it has a fixed packet length and permanent connections, so it is considered good for video content. Apparently not? Would we be better off with a T1 or T3? Nobody who was here for this decision is around to explain the rationale.
On 8/13/07, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** 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 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240178 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
