Bitrate Calculator.
Plan throughput, monthly traffic and uplink tier in a single pass.
Specifications
Stream resolution
Bitrate throughput
Constant bitrate (CBR)
6,500kbps
50025K50K
SMPTE ST 2022-7
The same feed, copied in parallel. Two paths is Blue/Red hitless protection. Extra paths add more copies. Uplink and traffic scale with the count.
Parallel paths
Effective 6,500 kbps
Schedule
Session duration · hours
Sessions per week
Analysis
Infrastructure projection
Network engine
4G+
Connectivity tier
50%
Traffic per session
8.37GB
Monthly projection
109GB
Annual
1.28TB
Per week
25.1GB
Calculation logic
GB = (kbps × 3600 × hours) / 8 / 1024²
kbpsConstant bitrate (video + audio)
8Bits to bytes
1024²KB to GB (binary)
Safety margin
We factor in a 40% buffer across the network recommendations to absorb TCP/IP overhead, jitter and ISP congestion.