[36792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Fri Apr 20 03:23:58 2001
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> I have a feeling providers will start managing/reducing the
> excess capacity headroom in their networks. And will start looking at
> ways to wring more money out of their current customers. Some rocket
> science accountant somewhere should be working on a way to maximize the
> chargable usage by just shifting the window bins back and forth until
> he finds the maximum.
This would work well for end-users. Buy outbound time on inbound-heavy
networks, and vice-versa. Route updates are too slow to move the content
around, otherwise a really savvy and cheap buyer could keep thier
"current" server in the dark part of the planet full time and get excess
bandwidth for next to nothing all day.
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