Design Studio and DSL Bridge for BW (Sizing)

Hi,
I'm doing a sizing exercise on a system where we are only going to use Design Studio, Analysis for Office and their mobile counterpart.
Now, the "Resource Usage Estimator" does not provide options for these two tools, and as far as I can read they don't have that much usage on the server side.
My question is then - does Design Studio use the DSL bridge to connect to BW? Or is it like Analysis, where it connects directly and only gets the login and partial metadata from the SBOP Platform?
And is there any special elements I need to take into account when sizing this machine other then whats written in the sizing guides?
Best regards,
Kris

Thanks Tammy, this solved some of my questions.
I am still uncertain as to how I can estimate the system usage, when the users only use Design Studio and Analysis, which I cannot add into the sizing estimator.
Looking at the sizing guides for DS, Analysis and mobile, I still need to estimate the basic platform.
Do you know where I can find help with that?
Best regards,
Kris

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