[144947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 95th percentile and Over-usage transit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Thu Sep 22 01:01:57 2011
In-Reply-To: <1D881613-ADDE-44BE-B9A7-C8B9C96EBBB7@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:01:04 -0700
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:
> If you have a lot more, you can negotiate tiers. E.g. The first 10G is
> $X/Mbps, but if you hit 20G, you get charged 20000 * $Y (where Y < X,
> obviously). This can lead to interesting situations where 19 Gbps costs
> more than 20 Gbps. But dems da breaks.
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
I knew of a place that used to push "fake" traffic over a link to ensure
they were in the cheaper (higher) tier. Who knew business rules overriding
engineering could result in non-optimal situations.
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Brandon Galbraith
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