(PM) Re: [jack.rickard@boardwatch.com]

Robert Boyle (robert@garden.net)
Sat, 21 Feb 1998 03:51:11 -0500

At 02:08 PM 2/20/98 -0800, M Lyons wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Dick St.Peters wrote:
>
>> We see some connections below 40k; we log connections ranging from 32k
>> to 54k. This morning I picked a range of days and analyzed them. Our
>> last 3785 flex connections have averaged 44.56k.
>
>Our average rate for k56flex calls was 43.66kbps over this sample of the
>last 6642 PCM calls to our modest network of 4 PM3's in 2 cities. In our
>location, below 40k calls are certainly not unheard of, as you can see,
>but they are definitely in the minority. If your modem negotiates a PCM
>connection with us, you have about a 92% chance of getting a 42kbps or
>better initial connection.

>Of course, these are just the initial connect rates and the modems can and
>do retrain during a call, so a measure of raw throughput would be required
>to establish whether the modems initial reported connect rates might be
>consistently too pessimistic or too optimistic, and to what extent the
>retrains themselves affect overall throughput.

These are our results for K56Flex connections using 6 PM3 boxes with two
local phone companies (Sprint & Bell Atlantic) with two different switches
(DMS-100 & 5ESS) all connections are via PRI lines. I can further separate
them if needed. These connections are for the previous month. There were a
total of 43433 analog calls handled by our PM3s out of a total 73,034 of
calls overall. I have provided the SQL scripts so anyone may reproduce
these stats for their equipment. The scripts are written based on the
Emerald/RadiusNT database, but they should be fairly easy to modify for any
ODBC version of RADIUS. We wouldn't trade our PM3s for anything! We install
them and forget about them. We can focus on making our customers happy
instead of figuring out why people can't connect.

-Robert

TotalCallsOverall
-----------------
73034

TotalPM3Calls

-------------
43433

TotalPCMStartRecords
--------------------
5622

ConnectCount ConnectSpeed Percent
------------ ------------ --------------------------
9 34000 0.16
42 36000 0.74
158 38000 2.81
77 40000 1.36
1062 42000 18.89
1533 44000 27.26
2105 46000 37.44
65 48000 1.15
566 50000 10.06
4 52000 0.07
1 64000 0.01

TotalPCMStopRecords
-------------------
5401

ConnectCount ConnectSpeed Percent
------------ ------------ --------------------------
12 34000 0.22
199 36000 3.68
208 38000 3.85
204 40000 3.77
1917 42000 35.49
1471 44000 27.23
978 46000 18.10
66 48000 1.22
344 50000 6.36
1 52000 0.01
1 64000 0.01

Here are the SQL statements:

DECLARE @TotalCallsStart INT, @TotalCallsStop INT

SELECT TotalCallsOverall = COUNT(*) FROM Calls WHERE AcctStatusType = 1

SELECT TotalPM3Calls = COUNT(*) FROM Calls WHERE AcctStatusType = 1 AND
ConnectInfo IS NOT NULL

SELECT @TotalCallsStart = COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) FROM Calls
WHERE AcctStatusType = 1 AND ConnectInfo IS NOT NULL AND
CONVERT(INT,SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) > 33600

SELECT TotalPCMStartRecords = @TotalCallsStart

SELECT ConnectCount = COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)), ConnectSpeed =
SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5), Percent = ROUND((CONVERT(MONEY,
COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)))/@TotalCallsStart)*100,2) FROM Calls
WHERE AcctStatusType = 1 AND ConnectInfo IS NOT NULL AND
CONVERT(INT,SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) > 33600 GROUP BY
SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5) ORDER BY ConnectSpeed

SELECT @TotalCallsStop = COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) FROM Calls WHERE
AcctStatusType = 2 AND ConnectInfo IS NOT NULL AND
CONVERT(INT,SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) > 33600

SELECT TotalPCMStopRecords = @TotalCallsStop

SELECT ConnectCount = COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)), ConnectSpeed =
SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5), Percent = ROUND((CONVERT(MONEY,
COUNT(SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)))/@TotalCallsStop)*100,2) FROM Calls WHERE
AcctStatusType = 2 AND ConnectInfo IS NOT NULL AND
CONVERT(INT,SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5)) > 33600 GROUP BY
SUBSTRING(ConnectInfo,1,5) ORDER BY ConnectSpeed

Robert Boyle - Engineer - Ext 103 - robert@garden.net
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