Pricing model for transit services

Mon Sep 23 20:07:47 UTC 2002

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Lane Patterson wrote:

> Also, some large ISP's have a policy that you must buy the whole pipe
> unmetered if your commit is >50% pipe speed.

Never heard that one, but conversly most ISPs have a minimum commit for
"big expensive ports". For example, 1 meg commits on FastE ports are
usually fine because almost nobody still has ports that are only 10Mbit
Ethernet. But noone in their right mind will give GigE ports to 10Mbit
committers, for potential abuse reasons and port cost reasons at the very 
least.

> And there are at least 4 ways of computing 95th percentile, though I'm sure
> there've already been threads on this.

There is only one way, anyone else is computing "something else" that they 
just happen to bill with. But this sounds like a subject for the NANOG 
FAQ. :)

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