On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:52:20 EST, Sean Donelan said: > The difference is the people using LHC data usually have someone who can > figure out network capacity planning, while the people in an > administrative school office may not have anyone. > > So what is a reasonable network capacity for 1,000 students now and in 5 > years.
Just as LHC people and a school are different, I'm willing to bet that bandwidth "requirements" per student are different based on the school and its policies, and that they're to a large extent self-fullfilling. The "requirement" at a small liberal arts school with a fascist network usage policy "we block all bittorrent and any protocols we don't understand (i.e. most of them), and no network access in the dorms", will be different from a large engineering school that says "We'll provide bandwidth so you can explore, experiment, and learn, and we'll let you know if you're named in a copyright complaint". So "reasonable" bandwidth ends up depending on what the network admin thinks "reasonable" use of the network is...
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