topic Re: How do you calculate 'concurrent connection' for firewall? in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-do-you-calculate-concurrent-connection-for-firewall/m-p/1055454#M896612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Concurrent connections is defined as the aggregate number of simultaneous connections between hosts across the DUT/SUT, or between hosts and the DUT/SUT.The number of concurrent connections a firewall can support is just as important a metric for some users as maximum bit forwarding rate.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:56:28 GMT hadbou 2008-09-16T12:56:28Z How do you calculate 'concurrent connection' for firewall? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-do-you-calculate-concurrent-connection-for-firewall/m-p/1055453#M896608 <P>Data center = 45Mbps circuit. </P><P>Branch offices connected to data center = 4. Total of 30 users per site. So therefore ingress traffic is 120 people.</P><P></P><P>I know that you consider about 10 TCP connections per user. If so, that is 120 x 10 = 1,200 connections.</P><P></P><P>Would you use 1,200 connections to estimate concurrent connections so that I can estimate firewall model?</P><P></P><P>Or you have another formula to estimate max # of concurrent connections? </P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:42:27 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-do-you-calculate-concurrent-connection-for-firewall/m-p/1055453#M896608 news2010a 2019-03-11T13:42:27Z Re: How do you calculate 'concurrent connection' for firewall? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-do-you-calculate-concurrent-connection-for-firewall/m-p/1055454#M896612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Concurrent connections is defined as the aggregate number of simultaneous connections between hosts across the DUT/SUT, or between hosts and the DUT/SUT.The number of concurrent connections a firewall can support is just as important a metric for some users as maximum bit forwarding rate.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:56:28 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-do-you-calculate-concurrent-connection-for-firewall/m-p/1055454#M896612 hadbou 2008-09-16T12:56:28Z