On 11/10/2010 12:26 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
While the answer is always it depends, I was wondering what the current
rules of thumb university network engineers are using for capacity
planning and oversubscription for resnets and admin networks?
For K-12, SETDA (http://www.setda.org/web/guest/2020/broadband) is
recommending:
- An external Internet connection to the Internet Service Provider of at
least 100 Mbps per 1,000 students/staff
- Internal wide area network connections from the district to each
school and between schools of at least 1 Gbps per 1,000 students/staff
How does that compare with university and enterprise network rules of
thumb?
I can tell you that no one I know in K-12 or Higher Education has the
capacity for 1GE per 1000 students. Same goes for the WAN connection.
More than likely *if* they have fiber from every school to a central
location it's a single pair and they couldn't afford to go 10GE. Though
I have answered some RFPs where they wanted to know what it would cost.
(Usually 2.5 * 1GE cost.)
I believe my Alma mater just reached 150Mbps for the 6,500 students +
faculty. Sure beats the 30Mbps they started with when I was a Freshmen.
I also just finished an RFP where a campus of at least 4,000 only had
100Meg. This was in a suburban environment with at least a dozen
carriers competing.
