Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

Thu Oct 30 00:13:59 UTC 2014

I'd say if there's a strong financial reasoning (or greed some times)
behind a complaint, it will be brought up, otherwise shouldn't it be all
based on civil talks and agreements anyway?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:57 PM, keith tokash <ktokash at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry I should have been more specific.  I'm referring to the
> *percentage* of a circuit's bandwidth.  For example if you order a 20Mb
> site to site circuit and iperf shows 17Mb.  Well ... that's 15% off, which
> sounds hefty, but I'm not sure what's realistic to expect.
>
> And beyond expectations, I'm wondering if there's a threshold that
> industry movers/shakers generally yell at their vendor for going below, and
> try to get a refund or move the link to a new port/box.
>
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> > To: ktokash at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?
> > From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400
> > CC: nanog at nanog.org
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:24:46 -0700, keith tokash said:
> >
> > > Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an
> inter-carrier circuit should guarantee?
> >
> > How are you going to come up with a standard that covers both the uplink
> from
> > Billy-Bob's Bait, Fish, Tackle, and Wifi, where a fractional gigabit may
> be
> > plenty, and the size pipes that got clogged in the recent Netflix network
> > neutrality kerfluffle?
> >
> > And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a
> peering
> > agreement with another carrier, and you exchange 35Gbits/sec of traffic,
> the
> > bandwidth at each peer point will depend on whether you peer at one
> location,
> > or 5, or 7, or 15.....
> >
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