Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

Fri Oct 31 11:21:12 UTC 2014

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Van: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] Namens Joe Greco
Verzonden: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:02 PM
Aan: Rafael Possamai
CC: keith tokash; nanog at nanog.org
Onderwerp: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

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>> A silly example would be this: you fill your gas tank with 12 gallons...
>> After driving until it's empty, your engine only used an average of 6 
>> gallons to actually move you from point A to point B. The other 6 were 
>> just wasted in form of heat. Do you ask for your money back at the gas station?
>> Or maybe you invest in a hybrid car?
>
>That *is* a silly example.
>
>A more proper analogy would be that you buy 12 gallons of gas, but the station only deposits 11 gallons in your tank because the 
>pumps are operated by gasoline engines and they feel it is fine to count the number of gallons pulled out of their tank instead of the amount given to the customer.

And bits/s is exactly what you get. With your example: You don't get kilometers at the gas stations, you get quantities of gas (e.g. a liter). And depending on a lot of factors, you get a distance from that quantity. 

David Hofstee

Deliverability Management
MailPlus B.V. Netherlands (ESP)