Terminal Services Bandwidth

OK, I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but I would like to
really get some good numbers/testing on deploying Terminal Services vs
Citrix based on bandwidth limitations. My understanding is that you can
assume ~10k per session for Citrix and ~30k per session for Windows Server
2003 TS. Now, some of the Microsoft graphs I looked at made it look as
though I could use compression to get down to about 20k per session. Does
anyone have any good links to share?

I have spent way too much time on Technet looking for something hard and
fast to use when pitching Citrix to a customer. Of course, Citrix's numbers
were really easy to find.

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Mostly Gizzards

Mostly Gizzards wrote:
> OK, I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but I would
> like to really get some good numbers/testing on deploying Terminal
> Services vs Citrix based on bandwidth limitations. My understanding
> is that you can assume ~10k per session for Citrix and ~30k per
> session for Windows Server 2003 TS. Now, some of the Microsoft
> graphs I looked at made it look as though I could use compression to
> get down to about 20k per session. Does anyone have any good links
> to share?
> I have spent way too much time on Technet looking for something hard
> and fast to use when pitching Citrix to a customer. Of course,
> Citrix's numbers were really easy to find.

Depends on a few things. What will you be running in your sessions? Is it
something that is graphically intensive? What about printing? Printing takes
up a lot of bandwidth.

You'd be best of testing this yourself. Set a TS up and run some of your
usual stuff, and measure the bandwidth used.

We have about 90 users, and they've never used more than 400k of our 2mb
line.

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