Bandwidth Requirements

Insight has been designed with efficient use of network bandwidth in mind, and as such, much of the traffic that it generates will be dependent on the activities being taken by the Students and the Teachers.

In general, when idle the Teacher and Student machines will consume approximately 300 Kbps of traffic inbound and outbound to the Insight Connector or Teacher console per machine.

When viewing a specific Student’s screen, the Teacher and the Student will be exchanging more traffic up to approximately 1.5 to 2 Mbps of traffic inbound and outbound per machine to the Insight Connector or Teacher console.

When broadcasting a Teacher’s screen to multiple Student computers, the traffic to the Student computers can increase significantly. For example, a Teacher console broadcasting a full-screen video at WXGA resolution (1366 × 768) to a classroom of 24 Students was observed generating between 10 Mbps to 50 Mbps of traffic depending on the specific nature of the video being shown.