historical data is your best hope. or build a model and use scenarios. Sent from my iPad
On 26 May 2011, at 16:12, Adam Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Do any of you have any pointers on how to go about predicting usage for > high-speed ethernet access service? > > I'm running 1GE links into buildings, and hanging many (100-1000) 100M > customers off switches in the basement, simple enough. > > I'm assuming ~300Kbps average peak usage per customer, but I can't quite work > out at what point that number becomes more important than the fact that each > user can peak at 100mbit (and that the backhaul is only access-speed * 10). > > I'm well versed in the economies of scale of fitting 10,000 8mbit customers > into 1GE, but this seems altogether a different beast to predict. If any of > you have similar scenarios I'd be very interested to hear on/off list :) > > Finally, what do people think of selling a 1G service with 1G backhaul (and > potentially 10s or 100s of customers buying this service alongside n*100s of > customers with 100M service)? > > Thanks, > adam. > >
