On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:52:20 EST, Sean Donelan said:
The difference is the people using LHC data usually have someone who can figure out network capacity planning, while the people in an administrative school office may not have anyone.
So what is a reasonable network capacity for 1,000 students now and in 5 years.
Just as LHC people and a school are different, I'm willing to bet that bandwidth "requirements" per student are different based on the school and its policies, and that they're to a large extent self-fullfilling. The "requirement" at a small liberal arts school with a fascist network usage policy "we block all bittorrent and any protocols we don't understand (i.e. most of them), and no network access in the dorms", will be different from a large engineering school that says "We'll provide bandwidth so you can explore, experiment, and learn, and we'll let you know if you're named in a copyright complaint". So "reasonable" bandwidth ends up depending on what the network admin thinks "reasonable" use of the network is...