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Re: (ASCEND) NAT and Ascend
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:43:51 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson
<fluffy@dunadan.com> wrote:
[snip]
:>A 22 system lab will rarely if ever have more than a few people browsing
:>the web at once. Perhaps 5-6 actually transferring data at peak, unless
:>your lab is used entirely for Internet and your people do a lot of
:>downloading. Most of the time you can expect less that that. Also don't
My primary worry is providing adequate support for CMS response on an
IBM mainframe. The surfing is not really that important. Hence, web page
wait time is not a big issue.
[snip]
:>If everyone is going to be browsing different web pages all at the same
:>time, then you have some pretty busy users. :) Really, I don't think
:>that you need to worry about overloading your pipe with only 20 users.
:>
:>> How many users can be on a single BRI at any one time?
:>
:>As many as are willing to put up with the bandwidth. If they are only
:>using it for email then you can put hundreds of people on the BRI. If on
:>the other hand they are all using it to send their CAD designs to your
:>central office and are downloading Win98 betas in their spare time, then
:>you should probably keep it to half a dozen or so. It all depends. :)
If one were to assume that only 5 out of the 20 were transmitting data
at any given time and that each WS should have a minimum of 30K, one
would need a bandwidth of 150K through the pipe. That would suggest that
2 BRI's would be sufficient. What would be the optimal hardware to
support that configuration. Maybe a Max 1800 at the host site to connect
the BRI network to the local fiber optic WAN? What would be best to use
out of the lab's stacker to support two BRIs?
Thanks for the help and ideas!
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