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  • 1.  Bandwidth usage for "normal" Central control data...

    Posted Dec 09, 2024 05:56 AM

    Hello community,

    Possible new customer asked me question about Central control & monitoring bandwidth usage for internet connection while controlling and monitoring network having core, 50 edges and about 50 ap's. I did not have direct answer for this one but I hpe somebody have...

    Is there document or knowledge which gives (ballpark) information about how many kbps one device roughly takes to move data between device and Central instance when in normal production mode (having no NAC or configuration/fw update etc involved, just sending usage/health/log data and receiving whatever Central sends to device)



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    Jori Luoto
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  • 2.  RE: Bandwidth usage for "normal" Central control data...

    Posted Dec 09, 2024 07:28 AM

    That depends on the usage, number of clients and if you use application recognition or not. With 100 network devices, it's probably not more than a few hundreds of kbit/s on average. It's not a common issue that Central management traffic puts significant load on the internet connection, except where there is very limited bandwidth available for example on satellite links or locations where the internet is not well developed.



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  • 3.  RE: Bandwidth usage for "normal" Central control data...

    Posted Dec 09, 2024 07:52 AM

    Thank you very much!

    So I do not lie much if I say bandwidth stays most of the time under 1mbps (to be on safe side) 



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    Jori Luoto
    AV-IT Specialist
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