I think this is going to depend greatly on the maturity of your organization and could look like any of these: 1. overprovision, hope for the best 2. make some educated guesses based on rough numbers 3. extrapolations from a group of, say, 10 live test users and multiply by 30 4. proper load testing tools in a dedicated PST environment > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lonetwin > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 08:01 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: How to calculate bandwidth requirement > > Hello everyone, > > we have developed a webapplication which will be put into production > soon. We expect close to a 1000 users to have access to the > webapplication > and assume 300 ( 30%) users to be using it at a given point of time. We > have > tomcat taking care of the UI and jboss is the application server with > mysql > as the db. > > Now we want to calculate the bandwidth that will be needed for this > application to be accessed by the 300 users. We are going to host it in > our > premises, and want to know what is the bandwidth that we will have to > get > from our ISP so that all users are able to access our application. > > Any help/idea on this ? > > thanks, > Sarang > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list