Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
Jonathan M. Slivko
jslivko at invisiblehand.net
Fri May 14 23:26:55 UTC 2004
Rob,
>
> What's your cost on managing the bandwidth? You're basically creating
> on-demand frame circuits, and balancing them is tricky (actually,
> deciding on an oversubscription ratio is easy, dealing with the
> customers is the tricky part!) on a low-margin basis. Of course, if
> you're a BofH or a sales guy, I expect that to be less bothersome than
> if you're a techie who has to actually talk to the customer when their
> neighbor takes up their bandwidth. Sometimes I wish I could be a bit
> more slimey to make paying the bills less painful *sigh*
Actually, our model doesn't allow for oversubscription as it's a
committed (meaning you have the bandwidth that you purchased guaranteed
to you), dynamic rate.
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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
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