How many students can use MacroVOLT at the same time?
Even with tens of thousands of users, we have never come close to the capacity of our Central Server. The precise answer depends on what the students are actually doing at any one time. For example, viewing a video lecture takes much more system capacity than reading the text of the lecture. Being part of a live session takes much more bandwidth than taking a test. We have had tens of thousands of people connected to our servers in the same hour. We monitor system performance, and if we get close to reaching capacity in any part of the system, we add resources to increase the capacity of that component before the service becomes impaired. The most common cause of slowdowns is a slowdown of the Internet itself. But the Internet is increasing capacity all the time, and significant slowdowns are rare and getting rarer.
