Fiber Speed & Productivity Impact Model

Estimate time saved and $ impact by moving from your current access to dedicated fiber. Clear before/after for web apps, video meetings, file transfers, and backups.

Presets:

Currency Workdays/mo

Current connection

Down (Mbps)

Up (Mbps)

Latency RTT (ms)

Jitter (ms)

Packet loss (%)

Overhead (%)

TCP/TLS/encap

Fiber target (DIA or dark+lit)

Sym speed (Mbps)

Latency RTT (ms)

Typical metro DIA

Jitter (ms)

Packet loss (%)

Overhead (%)

Business context

# impacted employees

Labor rate ($/hr)

Video mins/user/day

Web/app page loads/user/day

Avg page trips (RTTs)

TCP/TLS + app

Avg page weight (MB)

Files/user/day

Avg file size (MB)

Nightly backup (GB)

Backup window (hrs)

Results

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Web/App Loads—

Avg load (current)

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Avg load (fiber)

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Daily time saved/user

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Video Calls (Teams/Zoom)—

Quality (current)

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Quality (fiber)

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Meeting minutes saved/user

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Heuristic MOS based on RTT+jitter+loss.

Files & Backups—

File xfer (current)

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File xfer (fiber)

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Backup duration (current)

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Backup duration (fiber)

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Backup window fit?

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Company-wide time & $ impact

Total minutes saved / day

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Minutes saved / user / day

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Monthly $ impact (productivity)

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Uses workdays/mo setting

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