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Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (k claffy)
Mon Apr 23 05:22:51 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:16:45 -0700
From: k claffy <kc@ipn.caida.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Nevil Brownlee <nevil@caida.org>
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[at the risk of dampening the whole nanog atmosphere
by throwing real operational data in to this thread]
nevil wrote a paper 2 years ago on use of
75th percentile ("3rd quartile day")
for his academic network
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/net/Accounting/3qd-kaw.pdf
http://www.otago.ac.nz/ITS/ts/Kawaihikoservices.html
(nice work, tho for unrelated political reasons
that network happens to not exist anymore
so there's not really a source of longterm
data since 99 on it but there we are)
k
