How much network bandwidth will my Windows Media server use?
You can estimate the required network capacity by using the following equation: Required network capacity = Content bit rate x Audience volume To estimate the average content bit rate, divide the size of the file that you are streaming by the playback time in seconds. For example, a 2 megabyte (MB) digital media file represents about 16,000,000 bits. If the content duration is about 90 seconds, the streamed content has an average bit rate of 180 kilobits-per-second (Kbps). To estimate the audience volume, determine the highest number of concurrent users during a streaming event. For example, your company may plan to offer online training to all of its 10,000 employees over the local area network. Past training performance indicates that a maximum of five percent of the employees are likely to access the training at any given time. Therefore, the network must be capable of reliably delivering the content to 500 concurrent users, which would mean that your network must have bandwidth of
