historical data is your best hope. or build a model and use scenarios. 

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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.
> 
> 


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