[144948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 95th percentile and Over-usage transit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PC)
Thu Sep 22 01:55:05 2011
In-Reply-To: <CADE4tYXGoAdqVQ_GegcWuuWNv2GukLWUnb=yCQEQpG7hT3x0hA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:54:56 -0600
From: PC <paul4004@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
An optimal solution would be a tiered system where the adjusted price only
applies to traffic units over the price tier threshold and not retroactively
to all traffic units.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Brandon Galbraith <
brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Brandon Galbraith
> US Voice: 630.492.0464
>
