[K12OSN] Re: Re: Bandwidth requirements

[Huck]

Les,

You know very well people don't ask before making administrative 
decisions in government =)
They just 'DO' and then expect you to fix it afterwards...*dismounts 
soapbox*

--Huck

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:05, Daniel Jacobs wrote:
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>>Thanks for the reply Brian. Point taken, but I still would like to know
>>the bandwidth requirements. 
>>We are situated in Alberta Canada, and here the government is
>>connecting all government facilities(schools included) with a high speed
>>fiber optic network. Our schools will be linked with a 10mb half duplex
>>minimum(funded by the government). There is an option to upgrade this
>>service to a higher bandwidth at the school's cost. The head end will
>>have at least a 20 mb feed. 
>>I guess I want to just know if this is going to be sufficient because
>>it has already been decided to put this ltsp cluster in place.
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>We've seen people on the list mention that 100M interfaces are barely
>enough to drive 30 client machines from one server and that they see
>a big improvement from changing to a gig uplink between server and
>switch.  Your WAN link is going to be an equivalent bottleneck but
>for all clients, not just those connected to a single server.  I'd
>take the 100M per 30 clients as a minimum.  Wouldn't it have been
>a good idea for the people making the decision to ask about the
>requirements first?
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>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
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