The horizontal axis represents time, with each spike being roughly a day apart. Use tends to peak dramatically during the day, with the greatest peaks occurring during early to mid- afternoon. Use also exhibits periodicity associated with the day of the week. Sizing our transit circuits to meet inbound peaking loads is clearly the key. If we buy less capacity than we need, particularly less than we need to meet peaking loads, the network will perform poorly and our customers will become dissatisfied.
People sometimes suggest provisioning our bandwidth according to a per-use standard.
We know that OUS has just over 60,000 students.