[36800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Fri Apr 20 10:32:26 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:25:05 +0200
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10104200953410.17529-100000@spider.pilosoft.com>; from alex@pilosoft.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:57:55AM -0400
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:57:55AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 Toby_Williams@enron.net wrote:
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> c) bingo. Each of your providers will remove highest 95th percentile (1.5
> days worth of traffic) and only bill you for minimal utilization.
>
But it's likely that 30 x minimal utilization is far more than one time all
the traffic. Bingo! Perfect shot! Not taking into account 30 x the hardware
and 30 x maintenance ...
>
> -alex
>
Arnold
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