{"id":10007,"date":"2018-10-12T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:34:41","slug":"how-much-bandwidth-does-my-office-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/how-much-bandwidth-does-my-office-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How much bandwidth does my office need?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One question I\u2019ve been asked consistently, by nearly every customer since I started in this industry (back in 1999), is \u201cHow much bandwidth does my office need?\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there isn\u2019t a rule of thumb for \u201cInternet bandwidth per employee.\u201d It also obviously differs from company to company, depending on the number of employees and what applications your employees are using, online.<\/p>\n

For instance, is everyone doing normal Internet browsing or are your employees constantly uploading large HD video clips to a server in the cloud? Those two applications would require vastly different Internet bandwidth.<\/p>\n

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But hey, let\u2019s be real. Most people (asking me this question), are working at companies with pretty average Internet activity, which means their Internet traffic mainly consists of something like this\u2026 Office 365<\/a>, a web-based CRM\/ERP, an occasional video conference, a lot of Googling, some remote people VPN-ing<\/a>, and possibly a future hosted VoIP<\/a><\/span> solution.<\/p>\n

Sound a little like your company?<\/p>\n

If so, (as someone who sells business Internet access daily), I\u2019m going to give you the approximate amount of bandwidth I see companies using, based on their employee size.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, the amount of bandwidth needed for a 5-person company is not proportionally the same (per employee), as that of a 100-person company. I think you\u2019ll agree, if your company only has 5 people in the office, the odds of everyone needing lightning fast Internet, all at the same time, is much higher than in a company with 100 people. Therefore, the more employees in your office, the lower your bandwidth-per-employee ratio.<\/p>\n

Note: By \u201cemployees\u201d I\u2019m referring to only<\/em> the employees who are utilizing the Internet, at a single location. I am not<\/em> referring to the total number of employees in a company, across all sites and job descriptions.<\/p>\n

So here are my rough estimates:<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 10 Employees<\/strong><\/p>\n