Network Capacity Job Aid

Use this job aid to calculate capacity of network connections for print servers. Assumptions used in this job aid include:

  • Clients will print on average once each 10 minutes.

  • Minimum acceptable print performance is approximately eight seconds per megabyte.

Number of clients assigned to server 450
Average print job size in megabytes 2.3
Network throughput required (‘Number of clients’ * ‘job size’) / 600 * 2 3.45 Mbps

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