[1088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - reprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sat Nov 18 19:28:03 1995
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 19:19:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
cc: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>, smd@sprint.net, cook@cookreport.com,
nanog@merit.edu, GAVRON@ACES.COM
In-Reply-To: <01HXRAOJIFF800002U@ACES.COM>
On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Ehud Gavron wrote:
> >When you buy a T1 private line, you can be assured that you're not
> >sharing it with 120 other end-users. :-)
>
> A T-1 private line to what? Do you think Sprint has sold
> more than 30 T-1s, filling up their DS-3 backbone?
>
> Do you think MCI has sold more than 30 T-1s, filling up
> their DS-3 backbone?
>
> You _are_ sharing bandwidth, unless 100% of your traffic
> is to your provider.
Yes, that is true but most ISP's in my area are overselling 100 X or
more. Sure I mux 4 T1 FR to 1 T1 port and oversell my bandwidth, but all
of my links have at least 20% free on them during our peek.
Sure oversell, but I think it is wrong to keep overselling when your
links are at 90% - 100% most of the time and you sell more t1's to get
the money.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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