[144977] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 95th percentile and Over-usage transit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Sep 23 03:15:57 2011
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Pradeep Bangera <pradeep.bangera@imdea.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:15:46 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1316656684.2498.36.camel@Pradeep> (Pradeep Bangera's message of
"Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:58:04 +0200")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Pradeep Bangera:
> Question: Does this over-usage bandwidth charge a linear cost function
> or is it sub-linear like the committed bandwidth pricing?
Percentile-based pricing is never linear. It's not even a continuous
function of bandwidth usage. This is inherent to the percentile
functional, so it doesn't matter how the quantity that comes out of that
is priced.
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