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Network Planner: Example Setup

This document provides instructions for using a network planner tool to model a company's network needs. It summarizes the setup for Contoso, including office locations and employee counts. It then walks through adding a network plan, creating custom personas, adding sites, and generating reports to analyze bandwidth requirements and recommendations. The report output highlights any sites that need more bandwidth to support Microsoft Teams usage.

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Network Planner: Example Setup

This document provides instructions for using a network planner tool to model a company's network needs. It summarizes the setup for Contoso, including office locations and employee counts. It then walks through adding a network plan, creating custom personas, adding sites, and generating reports to analyze bandwidth requirements and recommendations. The report output highlights any sites that need more bandwidth to support Microsoft Teams usage.

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Network Planner

Example setup
Contoso office information
• Seattle HQ
• 1000 employees
• 25 Specialized calling only employees

• Local internet connection


• Local PSTN (Direct routing)

• Kirkland Office
• 400 employees
• 10 Specialized calling only employees

• Remote internet connection through HQ


• Remote PSTN connection through HQ

• Denver Office
• 250 employees
• 50 Specialized calling only employees

• Local internet connection


• No PSTN connection
Add a network plan

1. To get started, click Add a network plan.


2. In the New network plan pane, add a name and a
description for your network plan.
3. Click Save to continue.
Network plans

After you save your network plan, it’s displayed in your list of network plans.
Create your custom personas
1. On the Network planner page, click the
Personas tab, and then click Custom
persona.

Contoso needs a Calling only persona


for some of its employees.
2. Add a name and a description for this
persona and turn on Audio so that it’s
the only permission turned on.
3. Click Save to add the persona to the
list.
Add sites to your network plan
1. Click the name of your network plan in
the list to start adding sites.
2. Using the details for the sites listed on
slide 2, start filling in the information for
each site as you create them.
Adding a remote site

Contoso’s Kirkland office remotely connects


to the Seattle HQ for internet and PSTN.
For this to be possible, Kirkland and Seattle
both must be connected to WAN.
Selecting the Remote option in the
dropdowns for Internet and PSTN displays
another dropdown with potential egress
points for both.
Creating reports

1. With all your sites added, click the Report tab,


and then click Start a report to begin distributing
your user count.
2. When the distribution page opens, add a name
and a description for your report.
Persona distribution

When you first start a report, the user counts


that were set for each site will be distributed
automatically – 80% to office workers, 20%
to remote workers.
If your organization needs a different set of
personas (such as the Calling only one
created earlier), this is where you’ll assign
the number of users that have permissions
that do not match the Microsoft
recommended ones.
For Contoso, these Calling only personas are
taken out of the number of users in the
office.
The resulting distribution looks like the
second screenshot.
Click Generate report to see your bandwidth
needs.
Report output

1. After clicking Generate report, you’ll see this


screen displaying your bandwidth requirements
both as overall and modality specific values.
2. The default value for allowed bandwidth is 30%.
Changing this value and clicking Run report
highlights in red any areas that need more
bandwidth. See the example below.
Report output – recommendation view

Clicking the recommendation view icon


displays a site list as well as easy-to-read
recommendations (if there are any).
Currently, Kirkland’s bandwidth needs to be
changed to get the best performance from
Microsoft Teams at only 5% of total
bandwidth.
Thank you !

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