Think of the differences between circuit-switching and packet-switching paradigms in the Internet core design. Assume an Internet Service Provider (ISP) has an access link with 500 Mbps capacity and, at any given time, only 1% of its customers are active. However, during that active period, users generate data at a constant rate of 20 Mbps. Assume that there is a total of 100 customers of this ISP.
i. What is the maximum number of users the ISP can serve if it is implementing a circuit-switching strategy?
ii. What is the probability that 1 user will be active?
iii. What is the probability that more than 1 users will be active?
iv. What is the probability that more than 2 users will be active?
v. What is the probability the ISP will not be able to serve some users (i.e., more than 25 users being active) if it is implementing a packet-switching strategy?