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SFB Bandwidth Calculation Made Easy
This is really great!
thet naing wrote:SFB Bandwidth Calculation Made Easy
We have always been asked "how much bandwidth is required for SFB based on X numbers of users"?
If we didn't set required and expected bandwidth right for customers, I am very sure you will consistently hear "poor Audio/Video quality and performance" from them.
It's critical that we have a base bandwidth requirement stipulated and aligned customer's expection from the very beginning, to ensure that customer is fully aware of how much bandwidth SFB will potentially consume based on a number of combined scenarios and to determine if a customer's current network meets SFB bandwidth requirement.
I devised a very concrete and verifiable bandwidth requirement calculator for that. I don't mean this to be a laser-like-precision or military-grade-precision, but I do design this to have a micro-torch-like-precision with continuous improvements along the way.
Whenever we meet with customers, we would be able to calculate SFB bandwidth requirement confidently and comfortably using this excel-based calculator. Just don't forget to stress that this calculation is "only and strictly for SFB" - NOT all other traffics are considered.
I made this calculator extremely simple and easy to use while mainting accuracy. All you need to do is just "select number of concurrent users in respective scenarios" and you are done - nonthing could be simpler than that.
Bandwidth Calculator Download linkhttps://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SFB-Bandwidth-Calculation-32f7f6e3
PS: You should always recommend customer to implete QoS in their network for better A/V quality as well. I wrote a guide on "QoS in SFB Made Easy" here https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/QoS-in-SFB-Made-Easy-and-d7ffa783