Capacity planning

[iolair]

Maybe the wrong forum for this question. But here goes, is there a general rule of thumb to use when determining what's the right service to order? For example, 50 users only sending email requires a 64K Frame Relay. Or, 10 users viewing video and graphics requires a fiber T3 line? Anybody got a link to something that would help explain capacity by user numbers and traffic being transmitted?

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer

 

[Minue]

Hello
Your'e on the right path!I just did some consulting for a company and they took the amount of user and multiply them with the average bandwith for the company main application.It pretty simple.

Regards