Microsoft - RE: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

["Bob Evans" <bob () FiberInternetCenter com>]

Thanks Frank... I do have a customer with 500 meg/sec service running 350
meg/sec average all day.... just 800 employees - no company driven focused
use of MS office 365.

Applications used and time of day, etc. So, I don't think one can compare
a college's overall app bandwidth usage to a business primarily using
office 365.

I'm really looking for a "minimum bandwidth recommended requirement for
100 employees all using Office 365 hosted docs that are all outside the
LAN. " MS has no such number. MS just leaving it to the individual
case-by-case discovery process.

I bet Microsoft can't answer that simple question or they wouldn't have
these GB per user equations that use X for average document size. Best, I
have to go on so far is what one of our customers "thinks" is needed.

Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO




> 1 Mbps/user seems very high -- the local college has over 200 employees
> using O365 (and over 1400 students) and its broadband connection is just
> 250
> Mbps and they're at less than 150 Mbps during the day.
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Bob Evans
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:03 PM
> To: Roy Hirst
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...
>
> Thanks to those of you that answered...It is hypothetical....However, I
> found another customer that uses Office 365 heavily ... said they
> discovered 1 meg/sec per Microsoft Office 365 user works well in most
> scenarios.  This customer has 80 users and a 100 meg/sec connection with
> us.
>
> Thank You
> Bob Evans
> CTO
>
>
>
> > > On 1/6/2015 12:37 PM, Bob Evans wrote:
> > > > I have a customer that heavily uses Microsoft Office 365. It's
> > > > hosted. All
> > > > the data I see about usage per user appears theoretical. In that the
> > > > formulas assume people are taking turns using the bandwidth as if
> > > > there is
> > > > a patient line of packets at the Internet gas pump. Nobody is
> > > > clicking at
> > > > the same time. We all know that is not the real world.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any experience with Office 365 hosted that can tell
> > > > me
> > > > the practical bandwidth allocation (NOT in KB per month, but in
> > > > megabits/sec) for 100 users (during normal work hours) needs to be
> > > > available ?
> > > >
> > > > Thank You in advance,
> > > > Bob Evans
> > > > CTO Fiber Internet Center