The amount of multicast
network traffic that is generated by SAS applications is fairly small.
The greatest amount of traffic is generated during application start
up. When SAS Remote Services starts, the largest packet that it generates
is 124 bytes. Once startup is complete, the typical rate is less than
64 Kb per hour.
When the Web application
server starts, the largest packet is 256 bytes. Once startup is complete,
the typical rate for an entire SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence
Server deployment (including SAS Remote Services) is less than 128
Kb per hour.
Once the applications
are generating multicast traffic, the amount of traffic is steady
regardless of the load on the SAS Web applications.