Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

Thu Oct 30 11:33:39 UTC 2014

On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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.....

...and many different carriers have different definitions of "congestion". 
Some carriers might have several definitions of the word, depending on the 
service you have and which group you happen to be speaking to that day.

It's pretty much impossible to guarantee bandwidth on an inter-carrier 
packet-switched link.

jms