User Model
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The following requirements are based on the following user model and assumes that each deployment supports IM, Web conferencing, and audio-video and voice.
Table 35 User Model for Recommended Requirements
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
Client distribution |
30 percent of clients running Office Communicator 2005 70 percent clients running Office Communicator 2007 |
Remote user distribution |
90 percent of users connecting internally 10 percent of users connecting through an Edge Server, and (recommended) a Director |
Contact distribution |
Average of 50 contacts 70 percent of contacts within the organization 10 percent of enterprise users are remote 10 percent of contacts are federated 10 percent of contacts of public IM contacts |
IM sessions |
2 IM sessions/user/hour 10 instant messages per session 200 byte average message size 3 person average for multi-party IM sessions |
Table 36 Conferencing Model for Recommended Requirements
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
Scheduled meetings versus "Meet now" meetings |
50 percent of each category |
Meeting media distribution |
30 percent: PSTN audio, PPT 25 percent: PSTN audio, app sharing 15 percent: Group IM with DG integration 10 percent: VoIP audio, IM 10 percent: VoIP audio, video, app sharing 10 percent: VoIP audio, video, IM |
Meeting participant distribution |
25 percent Remote Access 15 percent Anonymous 10 percent Federated 50 percent Internal |
Table 37 Meeting Content Size
| Content Type | Average Size | Number of Instances |
|---|---|---|
Multimedia Content (Flash, Windows Media® player) |
50 MB |
1 |
PowerPoint |
20 MB |
2 |
Other MODI Documents |
10 MB |
3 |
Handouts |
5 MB |
1 |
Multimedia Content (Flash, Windows Media) |
50 MB |
1 |
PowerPoint |
20 MB |
2 |