Microsoft Teams–How to use the Teams Bandwidth Calculator video Summary

Continuing with Teams summaries i wanted to provide a summary of the latest video available on the success with teams academy which is “How to use the Bandwidth Calculator”. Thanks to Tom Arbuthnot for pointing out the new video as well.

Critically important to teams as it uses real time media is your network and also ensuring enough bandwidth is always available so before your deployment preferably check this tool out.

Plan before you deploy !

Calculator Link below to check it out.

https://www.successwithteams.com/BandwidthCalculator

Information on presenter Korneel Bullens

Calculating Bandwidth is IMPORTANT !

a well prepared network delivered great quality!

calculator tool to help guide you but note tool is based on typical value and assumptions so calculations must be monitoring and confirmed during deployment.

Usual disclaimer with Cloud sessions this is the April 2017 recording and content is subject to change.

Lets go!

Why calculate bandwidth?

help prepare for possible impact of adding Microsoft Teams to your network
quality is critically important !
User experience is key!
fundamental for a successful deployment !
not preparing network will lead to issues and poor user experience and adoption !
More return on ROI and more people will use it !
Don’t want to scare people from using it
MANDATORY when using Microsoft teams to calculate bandwidth and impact to network!
The quality and bandwidth available on the network is KEY ! Plan, Plan, Plan

Also from me with experience on SfB side when you look at networks and bandwidth consider the different types of network people will connect to, use and how media will flow. For example, LAN, WiFi, Internet, MPLS, IP VPNs, connect to Office 365. IPSec VPN encryption impact to media traffic. Will users use Desktop or mobile clients will desktops be connected to Lan or WiFi or ive even seen both ! Is the network ready for real time media / communications. Just because you can quickly enable and deploy teams doesn’t mean you want to skip planning phase and network is critical.

What is calculated with the tool ?

Uses averages and typical values (NOT MAXIMUM by default)
60% of time people speak and 40% people are silent
Number is based on expected usage when number of users is entered in the tools
Monitoring and adjusted may be requirements as there could be peaks for example all users after lunch all jump in meetings.
Great for guidance, keep monitoring and adjust as needed
Typical NOT maximum values
keep these in mind these are typical !
QoS may need to use maximum numbers
guidance available on maximum numbers below

Best practice no more than 30% being used by real time traffic
Based on average usage
For max values multiple by 1.4 mentioned roughly here
For max 1.4 is based not on all users making calls at the same time, calculates based on the 60% people speak and 40% silence and making them 100% speaking.

Where to find it ?

https://www.successwithteams.com/BandwidthCalculator

How to use ?

Add up to 10 rows
Site names
user counts
remote percentage – how many working remotely from home / road. 20% good starting numbers
Teams usage – will it be used heavily
P2P – peer to peer (one to one)
Conferencing – how much will it be used for conferencing
if you set one conferencing value to low then all the other should be set to low
Medium and 20% remote is default and typical Microsoft find