Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote:

> A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg
> size was 23K.

Not really. You need to differentiate peak load from sustained.

  (average message size) * (number of messages per hour)
  -----------------------------------------------------  = peak seconds
                        1544

So, assuming your numbers are accurate, you could clear 22,000 queued
messages of that size is 327.72 seconds of maximum throughput. That's only
an average sustained throughput of about 9.2%.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
Network Systems Engineer