Thanks Jimmy - I agree - It's pretty much what we do today...it's just this one customer wanted Office 365 specific details. I don't think anyone knows. Including Microsoft, app creator. Wonder when Cloud providers get a clue, step up and help recommend a circuit size based on users and the services their customer buy from them. All that investment in co-lo infrastructure and it's left the middle man. VCs in the cloud sector should be realizing that customer experience in their cloud investment can be hindered as they leave this up to the middle. But, they (and MS) should publish something other than the monthly GB transfer/seats they charge by. Enterprise circuits are not sold by GB transfer. After all we just want to get it right and help make the cloud service provider's apps run well. Thank You Bob Evans CTO
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Bob Evans <bob@fiberinternetcenter.com> wrote: [snip]
Does anyone have any experience with Office 365 hosted that can tell me the practical bandwidth allocation (NOT in KB per month, but in
Most likely in the real world where packets don't line up neatly... O365 is most probably not the largest bandwidth user, when there is Pandora and Youtube. It depends on factors that may be specific to the organization which are truly unpredictable for each individual user, but you could gather data for your specific population of users.
I believe I would just ignore O365, since the bandwidth usage is not much, and pick a standard rule of thumb for the amount of bandwidth your typical Office user actually needs to get work done, that includes more than sufficient 'slack' for O365.
My suggested rule of thumb if you can't actually measure the traffic in advance for your population: count the number of workstation devices that will be your network, figure at least 0.5 Megabit of WAN for each typical business user workstation or laptop.
Assuming equal numbers of active users and workstations all operating 8 hours a day ( if there are many more devices than users, or many more users than devices, then adjust in proportion).
*Each internal workgroup server or Office manager's workstation counts as 300% of a workstation. (In other words: better figure 1.5 Megabits for each of those, instead of 0.5.)
*Each Wireless tablet or phone connected by WiFi = 33% of a workstation. so add 0.17 Megabits for each staff person that may connect a smartphone.
*Designer, Engineer workstations are 500% (So figure 2.5 Mbit for each of those).
Add an extra safety margin of either 2 Megabits, or 30%, whichever is greater.
So for 100 standard workstations, 100 Tablets, 2 Internal servers, 1 Office manager desktop, and 2 Designers. I would say get a 100 Megabit WAN.
megabits/sec) for 100 users (during normal work hours) needs to be available ?
Thank You in advance, Bob Evans CTO Fiber Internet Center
-- -JH