Google collaboration suite - WAN impact
I'm looking at Google's collaboration suite as an enterprise option. I have 5000+ users spread across the globe - 98 sites. We're looking to use gmail, hangouts, sites and drive for a large portion of the users. Many of the sites are in fairly remote locations with minimal bandwidth (1.5mb up to 20mb for larger sites) and backhaul to 13 different egress points. It's been extremely difficult to get any real information out of Google on just what I would expect in regards to bandwidth consumption (they're trying to sell it of course that I shouldn't have to do anything). I'm working on the planning aspect for changing our WAN design to add additional egress points to address latency issues and am struggling with the bandwidth upgrades without any true measures. If anyone has had any experience with this any guidance would be much appreciated.
Brad Rubin
We used the Google Collaboration Suite at my last company. I found it extremely valuable for large, Enterprise organizations. We had a few remote locations and many at-home employees. The only time there were any hiccups was when we tried to use Hangouts with low bandwidth connections. If it becomes a problem, we would turn off the video (voice only) and everything was fine. Some at-home users were on DSL connections and it seemed to work fine. My opinion is that you wouldn't have too many problems unless you are planning on doing mass backups with Google Drive.
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Thanks for the comments. Do you know if your WAN team did any type of study on the impact? Any idea of average bandwidth consumption? I really don't plan on doing any backups through the Google platform so I don't see that as an issue.. It's really the hangouts that are our big concern as we use Lync internally now and people use it heavily for communication to reduce telecom spend.
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