[175715] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (keith tokash)
Wed Oct 29 19:57:22 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: keith tokash <ktokash@hotmail.com>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:57:13 -0700
In-Reply-To: <27952.1414623773@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I'm sorry I should have been more specific. I'm referring to the *percenta=
ge* of a circuit's bandwidth. For example if you order a 20Mb site to site=
circuit and iperf shows 17Mb. Well ... that's 15% off=2C which sounds hef=
ty=2C but I'm not sure what's realistic to expect. =20
And beyond expectations=2C I'm wondering if there's a threshold that indust=
ry movers/shakers generally yell at their vendor for going below=2C and try=
to get a refund or move the link to a new port/box.
> To: ktokash@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Date: Wed=2C 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400
> CC: nanog@nanog.org
>=20
> On Wed=2C 29 Oct 2014 15:24:46 -0700=2C keith tokash said:
>=20
> > Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an inter-car=
rier circuit should guarantee?
>=20
> How are you going to come up with a standard that covers both the uplink =
from
> Billy-Bob's Bait=2C Fish=2C Tackle=2C and Wifi=2C where a fractional giga=
bit may be
> plenty=2C and the size pipes that got clogged in the recent Netflix netwo=
rk
> neutrality kerfluffle?
>=20
> And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a pe=
ering
> agreement with another carrier=2C and you exchange 35Gbits/sec of traffic=
=2C the
> bandwidth at each peer point will depend on whether you peer at one locat=
ion=2C
> or 5=2C or 7=2C or 15.....
>=20
=
