On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 9:21 AM Shaun Dombrosky <SDombrosky@blackfoot.com> wrote:

Good Morning,

First time NANOG poster, apologies if I breach etiquette.

Does anyone have any first-hand data on how much data a small-medium business (SMB) can expect to consume in a failover scenario over a 4G/LTE connection? Retail, under 50 head count, using PoS, maybe cloud accounting software, general internet activity, 8 hour time period. Wonder if anyone is using a Cradlepoint or SD-WAN solution that could pull a few quick numbers from a dashboard for me. I haven’t had much luck in my searches.

Appreciate any info anyone can provide.

Thanks,

Hey Shaun,

I'd recommend pulling that data from the device normally facing their internet connection. Does it support netflow or even just basic snmp statistics that you could graph? Ostensibly the traffic level would be the same regardless of whether using an LTE backup connection or the primary internet connection unless you somehow prohibited certain traffic when on LTE. Ultimately though, your best bet is going to be to get real stats over the course of a couple of weeks and then you'll understand better the traffic patterns based on time of day, day of the week, etc, as well, as this is likely relevant.

Good luck!