Contention/Oversubscription maths

Fri May 27 02:12:12 UTC 2011

On Thu, 26 May 2011 23:48:48 BST, Adam Armstrong said:

> Finally, what do people think of selling a 1G service with 1G backhaul 
> (and potentially 10s or 100s of customers buying this service alongside 
> n*100s of customers with 100M service)?

Depends what weasel words you put in your SLA, I suppose.  Can they
claim SLA credits for it being down/unusable if they're only getting 1% of
the throughput they paid for?  And are they a captive audience or not?

What do you do on Patch Tuesday?
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