[36815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Apr 20 14:55:16 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 12:56:54 (-0400), Travis Pugh wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
>
> The one that surprises me is that carriers haven't introduced the concept
> of "off-peak" billing.
I don't know about the carriers, but some of the littler 2nd and 3rd
tier guys are billing at 95th percentile because that's how they are
billed upstream.
I too would think that if you're actually paying a fixed rate for a
fixed-rate pipe then you'd be far more interested in filling the
valleys, so to speak. I know some broadband providers who are in that
boat, but they don't want to also do what it would take to attract the
traffic that would fill their valleys.
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