<div dir="ltr">I recently did some maths to help a friend with capacity planning with an idea he had (wireless not fiber, but medium agnostic generally) and we spit out a few different figures in terms of expected GB usage per month, peak usage if we gave everyone more than enough (ie 100Mbit vs 50Mbit (wireless g vs n), max agvc (well more just backhaul from basestation to blah, max transit), and then the actual amount we'd sell which made business sense (ie profit).<div>
<br></div><div>Surprisingly there was not a whole lot of difference between them, burstability (ie 100mb 'NBN' vs 50) obviously impacted the peak the worst, but applying 95th to that brought it down to within 20-30% of the business sense figures. This was with about 500mbit internet (so give perhaps 10-15% internal traffic), and 1200 customers. I'd expect at gbit+ (and say 2k customers) that things would be settling down even further. Residential usage as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This method is something I've come up with from experience with dedicated servers VPS VPN and similar, so it might not be 100% applicable as what someone else may offer up, but I'd expect usage from 100/1000/10Gbit servers (ie high burst) to be a little more applicable than plain old DSL (low burst relatively speaking).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Might be a bit of a business 'secret', but maybe someone from iiNet/Node would be friendly and look over your figures ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>Just doing some math and capacity planning and I am wondering what others use for numbers for the average usage of a service per user?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am working with NBN-like speeds of 12mb, 25, 50 and 100.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Back in the day I used to factor it in at around 30% when we were doing dialup and low-speed DSL... and on ADSL2 I normally factored it at around 15%. </div><div><br></div><div>But I am wondering what people use for NBN-like speeds. I am thinking that a percentage is probably not a realistic measurement anymore as there is no particular reason a 25, 50 or 100mb user would do more or less on average... they just have the capacity to do more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone else have any thoughts they are willing to share, or even real observations across a significant number (thousands) of customers that they use for bandwidth (agvc and/or transit) planning?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Feel free to off-list if you want to keep the information anonymous... I am happy to publish some findings and a spreadsheet for the use of others.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all.<br clear="all">
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