[176209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outbound traffic on a circuit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Saner)
Wed Nov 19 17:31:19 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:31:09 -0600
From: Steven Saner <ssaner@hubris.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9578293AE169674F9A048B2BC9A081B40157207D96@MUNPRDMBXA1.medline.com>
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On 11/19/2014 04:23 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> I am looking at an order for a well known upstream provider. They are
>> handing me a circuit at a data center. The contract reads if we use more
>> than 50% of the outbound the price gets re-priced and almost doubles. How
>> many folks have ran into this?
>>
We have contracts with two different well known Tier 1/2 providers that
state that the the ratio of inbound to outbound traffic must stay above
2:1 or a price increase will be triggered. In one case that price
increase is about 40%. In our case the ratio is closer to 20:1 so it
isn't an issue.
Steve
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