[155784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fair Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harlow)
Wed Aug 22 22:59:32 2012
From: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXMht6GqBRfMNgu-4=AdMz3twLTwyxNMCWoXXgpHfj=AA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:58:34 -0400
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 22, 2012, at 21:25, William Herrin wrote:
> Works for the electric company, the gas company, the water company,
> etc. Metering I mean, not a use cap. The notion of a cap is pretty
> broken.
The difference is that gas, water, and electricity are all resources =
that have actual costs relevant to consumer and SMB-level users. A =
fiber-optic line costs the same to operate regardless of if it is =
carrying no data or entirely maxed out. Higher-capacity optics at each =
end of course cost money, but they're fixed cost items which are =
deployed once and don't often need replacement during their useful life =
(especially given the growth rate of network traffic). Longer runs =
obviously need repeaters capable of handling the data rates in use, but =
the same applies.
As far as I can tell, the actual cost of the bits being transferred is =
so minuscule as to be practically irrelevant for anyone who's not at the =
scale to be dealing directly with Tier 1 carriers. Capacity costs =
money, but once it's there utilization is nothing.
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Sean Harlow
sean@seanharlow.info=
