Plan for the devices that will be in calls and meetings at the same moment at your busiest time. Multiply that count by the rate your provider publishes for each kind of use, add the other traffic the connection carries at that time, and add a margin you choose. Work out upload and download separately. No single figure covers every UCaaS service, because each vendor publishes its own rates. Microsoft, for example, recommends 58 kbps in each direction for Teams audio, and 2,500 kbps up and 4,000 kbps down for each device in a Teams video meeting.
\n","summary":"Size a UCaaS connection from the devices in calls and meetings at the same moment, multiplied by the provider's published rate for each use, plus other traffic and a chosen margin, with upload and download worked out separately. Microsoft's Teams figures are one vendor's example: 58 kbps each way for audio, and 2,500 kbps up and 4,000 kbps down per device for meeting video.","publishedAt":"2026-07-25T14:29:19.417","verifiedAt":null,"editorialStatus":"APPROVED","lastReviewedAt":"2026-10-10T04:22:06.993","nextReviewDueAt":null,"templateVersion":"v2","aliases":["How much bandwidth does UCaaS need?","How much internet speed do I need for a cloud phone system?","UCaaS bandwidth calculator","How much upload speed does VoIP need per call?","How to size internet for Microsoft Teams calling","Bandwidth per concurrent VoIP call"],"confidenceScore":null,"confidenceLabel":null,"canonicalUrl":"https://nettech.net/voip-bandwidth-requirements"},"contributor":{"id":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","slug":"answer-stack","displayName":"AnswerStack","websiteUrl":null},"contributorOrganizationProfile":null,"contributorPerson":null,"sections":[{"id":"8f3d723d-4c55-4e68-adc7-5776b64fa594","sectionKey":"what_one_vendor_s_published_rates_look_like","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"What one vendor's published rates look like","introMarkdown":"Microsoft's [network preparation guide for Teams](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-network) is a useful model because it gives separate figures for audio, video and screen sharing, and separate figures for each direction. Its recommended rates for meetings are the ones we use below.","introHtml":"Microsoft's network preparation guide for Teams is a useful model because it gives separate figures for audio, video and screen sharing, and separate figures for each direction. Its recommended rates for meetings are the ones we use below.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":10},{"id":"bb674391-1ff6-4b23-a093-8347ed196045","sectionKey":"microsoft_s_recommended_rates_for_a_teams_meeting","sectionType":"table_section","heading":"Microsoft's recommended rates for a Teams meeting","introMarkdown":null,"introHtml":null,"outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{"rows":[{"cells":["Audio","58 kbps","58 kbps"]},{"cells":["Video","2,500 kbps","4,000 kbps"]},{"cells":["Screen sharing","2,500 kbps","2,500 kbps"]}],"columns":["Use in a Teams meeting","Upload per device","Download per device"]},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":20},{"id":"852e7074-a496-4e5b-9c15-d3bf479c1ee3","sectionKey":"how_to_read_those_rates","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How to read those rates","introMarkdown":"In these rates the video allowance is far larger than the audio one. A device in a video meeting is allowed about 43 times the upload of a device on an audio call. So on Teams, the number of people on camera at once moves the total much more than the number of people on the phone.\n\nMicrosoft also publishes a minimum and a \"best performance\" figure for each row. Its minimums are 10 kbps for audio, and 150 kbps up and 200 kbps down for meeting video at low resolution. The guide says actual use varies with video layout, resolution and frame rate, and that Teams puts audio quality ahead of video quality when bandwidth is short. So treat the recommended rates as a planning allowance for good quality. A call doesn't fail the moment a connection drops below them.\n\nThese figures belong to Teams. Another service uses its own audio and video technology and publishes its own numbers. Twilio's [documentation for its SIP trunking service](https://www.twilio.com/docs/sip-trunking), for instance, tells customers to allow 100 kbps for each simultaneous call, a figure it ties to one audio format, G.711, plus room for overhead. That's about 1.7 times Microsoft's audio figure, and each is right for the service it describes. Use the rates your own provider gives you. We explain where audio figures like these come from in [how much bandwidth a VoIP call uses](https://www.answerstack.io/q/how-much-bandwidth-does-a-voip-call-use).","introHtml":"In these rates the video allowance is far larger than the audio one. A device in a video meeting is allowed about 43 times the upload of a device on an audio call. So on Teams, the number of people on camera at once moves the total much more than the number of people on the phone.
\nMicrosoft also publishes a minimum and a "best performance" figure for each row. Its minimums are 10 kbps for audio, and 150 kbps up and 200 kbps down for meeting video at low resolution. The guide says actual use varies with video layout, resolution and frame rate, and that Teams puts audio quality ahead of video quality when bandwidth is short. So treat the recommended rates as a planning allowance for good quality. A call doesn't fail the moment a connection drops below them.
\nThese figures belong to Teams. Another service uses its own audio and video technology and publishes its own numbers. Twilio's documentation for its SIP trunking service, for instance, tells customers to allow 100 kbps for each simultaneous call, a figure it ties to one audio format, G.711, plus room for overhead. That's about 1.7 times Microsoft's audio figure, and each is right for the service it describes. Use the rates your own provider gives you. We explain where audio figures like these come from in how much bandwidth a VoIP call uses.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":30},{"id":"48c00a90-a730-4c15-b269-36850070407d","sectionKey":"count_devices_in_use_at_the_same_time","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"Count devices in use at the same time","introMarkdown":"The number to multiply is the count of devices active at the same moment. It isn't the number of licenses you bought, because a license says who is able to call and nothing about who is calling right now.\n\nMicrosoft's guide adds a detail that's easy to miss. Its rates are per endpoint, which means per device. Typically that's one per person, but someone who joins a meeting on a computer and a mobile device at once counts as two.\n\nYour own history is the place to start for the count. If your current phone system or carrier reports peak simultaneous calls, use that figure, and look at your calendar for the large recurring meetings that overlap. Where you have no history, pick an estimate, write it down, and revisit it after the first month of real use.","introHtml":"The number to multiply is the count of devices active at the same moment. It isn't the number of licenses you bought, because a license says who is able to call and nothing about who is calling right now.
\nMicrosoft's guide adds a detail that's easy to miss. Its rates are per endpoint, which means per device. Typically that's one per person, but someone who joins a meeting on a computer and a mobile device at once counts as two.
\nYour own history is the place to start for the count. If your current phone system or carrier reports peak simultaneous calls, use that figure, and look at your calendar for the large recurring meetings that overlap. Where you have no history, pick an estimate, write it down, and revisit it after the first month of real use.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":40},{"id":"5225345f-f237-4409-ab19-24146a2a84e2","sectionKey":"a_worked_example_with_stated_assumptions","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"A worked example with stated assumptions","introMarkdown":"Suppose a 40-person office uses Teams. Suppose that at its busiest moment, 8 devices are in video meetings and 10 other devices are on audio-only calls, all at once. Using Microsoft's recommended rates:\n\n- Video upload: 8 × 2,500 kbps = 20,000 kbps\n- Video download: 8 × 4,000 kbps = 32,000 kbps\n- Audio in each direction: 10 × 58 kbps = 580 kbps\n\nThat comes to 20,580 kbps up and 32,580 kbps down, or about 20.6 Mbps and 32.6 Mbps. The ten audio calls are less than 3 percent of the upload total. Two additional devices joining on video would add 5 Mbps of upload and 8 Mbps of download.\n\nThe example makes modeling choices of ours. It applies the video allowance once to each of the eight video devices and adds no separate audio allowance for them. It also leaves screen sharing out. An office whose meetings regularly share screens should model that separately with the screen sharing row, for the number of devices it expects to be in those meetings at once.\n\nCalls share the connection with everything else the office does. Suppose the firewall's traffic report shows the office already using 15 Mbps up and 60 Mbps down at that time for cloud backups, file sync and ordinary browsing. The totals become 35.6 Mbps up and 92.6 Mbps down.\n\nThen comes the margin. Suppose this office adds 25 percent to cover growth and an unusually busy day. That percentage is our assumption for the example, and a business expecting to hire or to hold more video meetings has reason to choose more. With it, the planning figures are about 44.5 Mbps up and 115.7 Mbps down.\n\nCheck each figure against the matching side of the internet plan. Suppose the office has a plan rated at 300 Mbps down and 30 Mbps up. Download has room to spare, and upload falls about 14.5 Mbps short. A plan can pass in one direction and fail in the other, which is why the two totals stay separate all the way through.\n\nTeams administrators can run the same exercise in Microsoft's Network Planner. The guide describes it as a tool that calculates network requirements for each physical location from your network details and Teams usage.","introHtml":"Suppose a 40-person office uses Teams. Suppose that at its busiest moment, 8 devices are in video meetings and 10 other devices are on audio-only calls, all at once. Using Microsoft's recommended rates:
\nThat comes to 20,580 kbps up and 32,580 kbps down, or about 20.6 Mbps and 32.6 Mbps. The ten audio calls are less than 3 percent of the upload total. Two additional devices joining on video would add 5 Mbps of upload and 8 Mbps of download.
\nThe example makes modeling choices of ours. It applies the video allowance once to each of the eight video devices and adds no separate audio allowance for them. It also leaves screen sharing out. An office whose meetings regularly share screens should model that separately with the screen sharing row, for the number of devices it expects to be in those meetings at once.
\nCalls share the connection with everything else the office does. Suppose the firewall's traffic report shows the office already using 15 Mbps up and 60 Mbps down at that time for cloud backups, file sync and ordinary browsing. The totals become 35.6 Mbps up and 92.6 Mbps down.
\nThen comes the margin. Suppose this office adds 25 percent to cover growth and an unusually busy day. That percentage is our assumption for the example, and a business expecting to hire or to hold more video meetings has reason to choose more. With it, the planning figures are about 44.5 Mbps up and 115.7 Mbps down.
\nCheck each figure against the matching side of the internet plan. Suppose the office has a plan rated at 300 Mbps down and 30 Mbps up. Download has room to spare, and upload falls about 14.5 Mbps short. A plan can pass in one direction and fail in the other, which is why the two totals stay separate all the way through.
\nTeams administrators can run the same exercise in Microsoft's Network Planner. The guide describes it as a tool that calculates network requirements for each physical location from your network details and Teams usage.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":50},{"id":"88c90fc3-ff18-47df-9277-73fe3a870308","sectionKey":"why_the_mix_of_uses_changes_the_answer","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"Why the mix of uses changes the answer","introMarkdown":"The same arithmetic applies on any UCaaS service, with that provider's rates in place of Microsoft's. The mix of uses is the part that differs from office to office.\n\n[Atlantech Online's UCaaS page](https://www.atlantech.net/solutions/voice/unified-communications) lists several ways a person can use its hosted service: a softphone tied to the business dial plan, mobile apps for Android and iOS, high-definition video conferencing, and desktop and file sharing. Each one loads a connection differently. A voice call on the softphone is audio. A video conference with a shared desktop adds screen sharing traffic to the video. A call on the mobile app uses the office connection when the phone is on office Wi-Fi, and the cellular network when the phone is on mobile data.\n\nSo two offices with the same plan and the same number of users can need different circuits. One that mostly answers the phone is sized by its audio calls. One that runs client meetings on camera is sized by its video. The Teams rates above don't transfer to another provider's service, so for a hosted plan like Atlantech's the sizing uses the rates that provider supplies.\n\nRemote staff need the same care about which connection carries what. A person working from home sends their calls over their home connection, so those calls stay out of the office total. That changes if their traffic is routed through the office over a VPN, because then it passes through the office circuit too. Microsoft's guide recommends letting Teams traffic bypass the VPN. Its reasons are that VPNs typically aren't designed for real-time media and that the detour adds delay. We go further into the home side in [how to set up UCaaS for a remote team](https://www.answerstack.io/q/how-do-you-set-up-ucaas-for-a-remote-team).","introHtml":"The same arithmetic applies on any UCaaS service, with that provider's rates in place of Microsoft's. The mix of uses is the part that differs from office to office.
\nAtlantech Online's UCaaS page lists several ways a person can use its hosted service: a softphone tied to the business dial plan, mobile apps for Android and iOS, high-definition video conferencing, and desktop and file sharing. Each one loads a connection differently. A voice call on the softphone is audio. A video conference with a shared desktop adds screen sharing traffic to the video. A call on the mobile app uses the office connection when the phone is on office Wi-Fi, and the cellular network when the phone is on mobile data.
\nSo two offices with the same plan and the same number of users can need different circuits. One that mostly answers the phone is sized by its audio calls. One that runs client meetings on camera is sized by its video. The Teams rates above don't transfer to another provider's service, so for a hosted plan like Atlantech's the sizing uses the rates that provider supplies.
\nRemote staff need the same care about which connection carries what. A person working from home sends their calls over their home connection, so those calls stay out of the office total. That changes if their traffic is routed through the office over a VPN, because then it passes through the office circuit too. Microsoft's guide recommends letting Teams traffic bypass the VPN. Its reasons are that VPNs typically aren't designed for real-time media and that the detour adds delay. We go further into the home side in how to set up UCaaS for a remote team.
\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":60},{"id":"7ca6dc01-382d-446e-a0c4-4f5ef3b1aa4b","sectionKey":"when_enough_bandwidth_still_isn_t_enough","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"When enough bandwidth still isn't enough","introMarkdown":"A connection can pass this arithmetic and still deliver poor calls. The arithmetic measures volume, and calls also depend on timing. Microsoft's guide lists calls that cut out and voices that sound robotic as possible signs of jitter or packet loss, and it treats insufficient bandwidth as a separate cause. We cover those symptoms in [common UCaaS call quality problems](https://www.answerstack.io/q/what-are-common-ucaas-call-quality-problems).\n\nOn a network you manage, Quality of Service, or QoS, is the tool Microsoft recommends. It prioritizes voice and video packets over other traffic. The guide says to implement it on all segments of a managed network, including a network with adequate bandwidth, so that unexpected network events don't hurt call quality. Its reach is the path you control. It makes no promise about a home network or the public internet beyond your equipment.\n\nWi-Fi is the last item to plan for. Microsoft notes that Wi-Fi networks aren't necessarily designed or configured for real-time media, and that access point placement and the choice of frequency band both affect call quality. An office can buy a circuit that clears every figure above and still have poor calls in the conference room at the far end of the floor, because the weak link there is the wireless hop inside the building.","introHtml":"A connection can pass this arithmetic and still deliver poor calls. The arithmetic measures volume, and calls also depend on timing. Microsoft's guide lists calls that cut out and voices that sound robotic as possible signs of jitter or packet loss, and it treats insufficient bandwidth as a separate cause. We cover those symptoms in common UCaaS call quality problems.
\nOn a network you manage, Quality of Service, or QoS, is the tool Microsoft recommends. It prioritizes voice and video packets over other traffic. The guide says to implement it on all segments of a managed network, including a network with adequate bandwidth, so that unexpected network events don't hurt call quality. Its reach is the path you control. It makes no promise about a home network or the public internet beyond your equipment.
\nWi-Fi is the last item to plan for. Microsoft notes that Wi-Fi networks aren't necessarily designed or configured for real-time media, and that access point placement and the choice of frequency band both affect call quality. An office can buy a circuit that clears every figure above and still have poor calls in the conference room at the far end of the floor, because the weak link there is the wireless hop inside the building.
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A PBX is equipment at your site that your team or a contractor maintains. UCaaS runs in the provider's cloud for a per-user monthly fee and adds video, chat and mobile apps. 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A covered entity using UCaaS has to include it in its Security Rule risk analysis and safeguards, and needs a business associate agreement before using features that store patient information, such as voicemail, recordings and transcripts. 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