Richard, the software used for your telephone booth problem is called an Ehrlang calculator. it seems that you could use an Ehrlang calculator to do this as well. There are a number of web sites that have Ehrlang calcs. A google search should reveal a bunch of them.
A long time ago, in statistics class, we used to do something called "monte carlo simulations" to figure out stuff like this also. I don't remember much about the mechanics. Got a statistics professor on you campus? Chuck -- TANSTAAFL "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" ""Larkin, Richard"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I recall in Uni that we used te Poisson distribution and some mathematical > formulae to say that if we have x people arrive per hour at a phone booth, > and the average phone call is y minutes, we would need z phone booths to > ensure that 95% of the time, people don't have to wait (or only have to wait > xx minutes). > > Transposing this to application budgeting, I have an application at a remote > site which has a max of 5 concurrent users and the worst transaction they do > will hog the 64kbps line for 30 seconds (if it is the only transaction). > > My question is without revising my lecture notes, what software would help > me determine what bandwidth to allocate this application so that 95% (or > whatever) of the time the transaction can be completed in yy seconds? > > Is there any good software out there which would help me with this? > > Cheers > Rik Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=58286&t=58277 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
