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

Sun Jun 3 04:31:20 UTC 2001

> This may be obvious, but billing by volume (bytes transferred) places far
> greater availability requirements on the measurement system than rate-based
> charging schemes.

Not particularly.

If you have the average (not median) of usage for the month, even losing a
sample here or there, you'd be just as accurate as a 95th %tile which may
have missed the same measurements.

> If I am charging by the byte, I have to count every packet. If my measurement
> system breaks, I lose money until it is fixed.

See above, 'average'.