95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)

Sat Jun 2 21:28:52 UTC 2001

On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 06:49  PM, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:

> UUNet bills for the MAXIMIUM 95th percentile on inbound OR outbound,
> whichever is higher, as does AboveNet, and probably the majority of
> networks trying to be like UUNet. But a significant portion of other
> networks will bill for the AVERAGE under the 95th percentile.

As an interesting aside to this discussion, Digital Island bills for 
total traffic transmitted per month (in GB increments).   Does anyone 
using them have any comments on this approach besides the obvious?  Does 
anyone else do a similar deal?

Thanks,
Tim