[36806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Apr 20 12:39:26 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:33:01 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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There is a much simpler game that costs the ISP a lot more
money. Fortunately, it's not a common business model.
Let's say I am a TV network, and I want to simulcast a TV
show once a week to the Internet. I might need 2-3 Gig of capacity
during the simulcast, but the rest of the time I need none. So,
I buy 95% service, stream for 4 hours a month, which is thrown away
in any of the counting schemes put forth so far, and pay nothing.
Lather, rinse, repeat with each TV show. There's no incentive
to buy a bundle of service and stream all the shows (more approximating
continuous usage) from one place.
Fortunately this application is small, but if you were a
web hoster you could do the same thing with multiple providers.
With 20 providers, you could move your bandwidth with that provider
only 5% of the time, paying nothing for service with any of them.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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