Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-21 Thread Colin Johnston
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 23:19, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > I don't belong to the O365 product group, but did you look at this? > > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852542.aspx > > and a blog article to go along with that: > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/08/20/do

RE: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-20 Thread Christian Kuhtz
I don't belong to the O365 product group, but did you look at this? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852542.aspx and a blog article to go along with that: http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2013/08/20/do-you-have-any-bandwidth-calculators-for-office-365.aspx There's a bun

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-13 Thread Tei
Current developing fads include messaging a server POST messages over http, receiving JSON data. Both the request and answer are smallish small. A interface update refresh may depend on this data arriving. So the less latency, the more agile and snappy will feel the application. This is less tra

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:02:50 -0600, Jimmy Hess said: > In other cases, there are concerns about the additional vendor > lock-in, loss of strong control of the data. Cannot assure that it > is encrypted and secure against access by social engineering attacks > against SaaS provider. The one that

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
Dave Pooser wrote: > then they are currently gaining from customers who would *not* move away > from on-prem if they understood all the costs including increased > bandwidth? The extra bandwidth needed to utilize most SaaS-based applications is not significant. I would say the larger problems in

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-12 Thread Bob Evans
>>Wonder when Cloud providers get a clue, step up and help recommend a >>circuit size based on users and the services their customer buy from >> them. > > When they think that poor customer word of mouth will cost them more sales > then they are currently gaining from customers who would *not* move

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Pooser
>Wonder when Cloud providers get a clue, step up and help recommend a >circuit size based on users and the services their customer buy from them. When they think that poor customer word of mouth will cost them more sales then they are currently gaining from customers who would *not* move away from

Re: Office 365 Expert

2015-01-08 Thread Bob Evans
Thanks for your input Joel...Yes, it's a lot of bandwidth, today. In fact, our smallest customer is 10 meg/sec. Our biggest is 10 Gig/second. Here in Silicon Valley California most companies are outsourcing everything except the circuit they need to access it..it's the new portability initiative!

Re: Office 365 Expert

2015-01-08 Thread Joel M Snyder
>My suggested rule of thumb if you can't actually measure the traffic >in advance for your population: count the number of >workstation devices that will be your network, >figure at least 0.5 Megabit of WAN for each typical business >user workstation or laptop. I can't help but laugh (laughing w

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-07 Thread Bob Evans
Thanks Jimmy - I agree - It's pretty much what we do today...it's just this one customer wanted Office 365 specific details. I don't think anyone knows. Including Microsoft, app creator. Wonder when Cloud providers get a clue, step up and help recommend a circuit size based on users and the servi

Microsoft - RE: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-07 Thread Bob Evans
On Behalf Of Bob Evans > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:03 PM > To: Roy Hirst > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that... > > Thanks to those of you that answered...It is hypotheticalHowever, I > found another customer tha

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-07 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Bob Evans wrote: [snip] > Does anyone have any experience with Office 365 hosted that can tell me > the practical bandwidth allocation (NOT in KB per month, but in Most likely in the real world where packets don't line up neatly... O365 is most probably not the lar

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-07 Thread Bob Evans
Thanks to those of you that answered...It is hypotheticalHowever, I found another customer that uses Office 365 heavily ... said they discovered 1 meg/sec per Microsoft Office 365 user works well in most scenarios. This customer has 80 users and a 100 meg/sec connection with us. Thank You Bob

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-06 Thread Roy Hirst
I found both these useful, all credit to the authors: Application-Driven Bandwidth Guarantees in Data Centers www.hpl.hp.com/people/jklee/Sigcomm14-CloudMirror.pdf Surviving failures in Bandwidth-Constrained Datacenters http://re

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-06 Thread Roy Hirst
I know there is no such thing as a patient line of packets. There was recently some research done on feedback from big early adopters (hosts) that I will try to dig out if you need it. I remember that (1) user-to-data center bandwidth is much less than the resulting in-data-center bandwidth or d