[147610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: local_preference for transit traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Dec 15 11:29:23 2011
In-Reply-To: <201112160015.50466.mtinka@globaltransit.net>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:27:48 -0500
To: mtinka@globaltransit.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2011/12/15 Mark Tinka <mtinka@globaltransit.net>
> On Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:42:37 PM Leo Bicknell
> wrote:
>
> > However, there may be a simpler explanation. If you bill
> > by the bit as a transit provider it's in your best
> > interest to make sure your customer gets as many bits
> > through you as possible. Plus if you can fill their
> > pipe, they need to buy an upgrade to you.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but are connections between ISP's normally billed by
the bit? I'm a transit AS but not an ISP in the traditional sense, so I
just have the normal monthly billing.
