Re: Streaming Video and Internet Capacity

[Peter Charbonneau <Peter.Charbonneau () WILLIAMS EDU>]

Anne,

  We have heard constantly from our users "my bandwidth is better at
home - I get XMbps or YMbps or ZMbps from my cable/DSL/Whatever
provider."

  We are using an Allot NetEnforcer.  We have created partitions for
every student IP address.  The partition definition gives each them a
max of 5Mbps.  They can do what they will with the 5M - well we do put
restraints on P2P (750Kbps down, 56Kbps up).

  This implementation has worked well for us.  Obviously we don't
have 10G of bandwidth (2000 students x 5M), but the student newspaper
reported that every student gets 5M of bandwidth and we haven't heard
a complaint since (knock on wood).  This has been in place for a
little over a year.

p

On Jan 13, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Wood, Anne (wood) wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> We are struggling with Internet bandwidth due mostly to the large
> increase in online videos and programming (YouTube, ESPN, Netflix,
> etc).  We are a small liberal arts school with approximately 1400
> students who live mostly on campus.  We do shape the Internet pipe
> using a Packetshaper, but only at an application level (not per
> person, connection, or site).  We have been working with a 45 Mbps
> link since last March and are trying to figure out what other
> schools have done to deal with the increase in demand from
> residential students and if those changes are working.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Anne Wood
>
> Director of Campus Network and Security
> Juniata College
> Huntingdon, PA
> (814)641-5310



PeteC


Peter Charbonneau
Sr. Network and Systems Administrator
Williams College
(413) 597-3408 (office)
(413) 822-2922 (cell)