Outbound traffic on a circuit?

Fri Nov 21 19:42:14 UTC 2014

But I am buying 1 Gig on a 1 Gig circuit.  I could see if it were
burstable but it was being billed as 1Gig on a Gig circuit.

Justin

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On 11/19/14, 8:40 PM, "joel jaeggli" <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

>On 11/19/14 12:40 PM, Justin Wilson wrote:
>> I am looking at an order for a well known upstream provider.  They are
>> handing me a circuit at a data center.  The contract reads if we use
>>more
>> than 50% of the outbound the price gets re-priced and almost doubles.
>>How
>> many folks have ran into this?
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>if you're buying 500Mb/s commit 95th percentile on a 1Gb/s circuit or
>5Gb/s on 10 then you can expect a contract to specify an upcharge
>accordingly if you bust your commit.
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>I generally look for terms that provide a relavitily short notification
>window for uping my commit. e.g. 6 weeks or less.
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>> Justin
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>> http://www.thebrotherswisp.com
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>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
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