Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

Wed Oct 29 23:57:13 UTC 2014

I'm sorry I should have been more specific.  I'm referring to the *percentage* of a circuit's bandwidth.  For example if you order a 20Mb site to site circuit and iperf shows 17Mb.  Well ... that's 15% off, which sounds hefty, but I'm not sure what's realistic to expect.  

And beyond expectations, I'm wondering if there's a threshold that industry movers/shakers generally yell at their vendor for going below, and try to get a refund or move the link to a new port/box.

> To: ktokash at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400
> CC: nanog at nanog.org
> 
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:24:46 -0700, keith tokash said:
> 
> > Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an inter-carrier circuit should guarantee?
> 
> How are you going to come up with a standard that covers both the uplink from
> Billy-Bob's Bait, Fish, Tackle, and Wifi, where a fractional gigabit may be
> plenty, and the size pipes that got clogged in the recent Netflix network
> neutrality kerfluffle?
> 
> And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a peering
> agreement with another carrier, and you exchange 35Gbits/sec of traffic, the
> bandwidth at each peer point will depend on whether you peer at one location,
> or 5, or 7, or 15.....
> 