Recommended bandwidth at office locations

To get awesome video quality on your endpoint you need to have a Premium subscription. Plus subscriptions give great quality (up to HD).

Your bandwidth requirements depend on your office size and how many video systems you have.

As a rule of thumb calculate:

• 4 Mbit/s per Premium-enabled video system
• 1.5 Mbit/s for a video system on a Plus subscription

In addition, you also need to add bandwidth for personal PC/tablet/mobile clients. As usage of these clients is often more spread out over time we suggest using an estimate of 0.5Mbit/s per active user (3-10 users).

Most businesses do not have a dedicated link for video traffic. It is a shared resource, so depending on your other network traffic pattern, we suggest to add some margin to allow for web browsing and other background traffic. This should be about 2 Mbit/s at least. If office users use streaming services like YouTube, the margin needs to be even higher (such as 5 Mbit/s).

That gives an additional bandwidth required at your location of:
4 Mbit/s x number of dedicated video systems with Premium subscriptions
+ 0.5Mbit/s x number of personal video users (3-10)
+ 0.3Mbit/s x number of personal video users (11-50)
+ 0.2Mbit/s x number of personal video users (50+)

If you have strong peaks in the network usage (such as offsite backups) you should consider some way of controlling burst traffic so it does not congest your Internet link.