Bandwidth

[AvenueComputers]

100 end users downloading streaming media at 56K
250 end users downloading streaming media at 100K
350 end users downloading streaming media at 300K

700
..all at one time...

How much bandwidth is needed?

Thanks,
Gerard Ramos

[jdMorgan]

Avenue,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

110 Mbps, assuming no packet loss and no overhead. An OC-3 should suffice(!)

Jim

[AvenueComputers]

Thanks man. Can you recomend a good hosting company. Any opinons on rackspace.com?

gerard

[jdMorgan]

gerard,

No, those numbers are way outta my league... Maybe other members have some experience at this level, though. An OC-3 will take you to 150Mbps is all I know. After than, it's multiple OC-3s or an OC-12 at 600Mbps.

Jim

[bcc1234]

It goes down to about $400 per Mbps per month, and then you get volume discounts. That if you get the bandwidth from a tier-1 provider.

added:
That's for a connection with multiple upstream links in a data-center.
You can lease a line to your location at much smaller rate.

[AvenueComputers]

Thanks,

i guess i'll get in touch with bell south about getting the lines.

Gerard

[ElMongol]

This implies that all users hit "Go" (or whatever) at exactly the same time.

But you're talking serious bandwidth here in that case, you'll need a dedicated and unsaturated OC-3! Of course there's some multi-cast things you can try too.

Roll on IPv6!

Anyway, I'd recommend chatting to dedicated video companies, there's plenty around.

M.