[c-nsp] Bandwidth Vs Number of Users

[Phil Mayers]

Pedro Matusse wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> 
> My company is going to provide Internet access to an event where will be
> around simultaneous 500 Internet users. How can I guess what bandwidth
> should made available?
> 
> Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance

There's no way to answer that, without knowing what kind of event and 
what type of internet traffic the users will be generating.

e.g. an event which is a meeting of streaming media users, or 
high-energy physicists, will need more bandwidth than an event of high 
school teachers.

It's also not a Cisco-specific question and may be best asked elsewhere.

Assuming a mix of web, email and general personal internet, I'd guess 
somewhere between 2 and 10 megabits would be the minimum.