[38282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Brown)
Sat Jun 2 19:29:19 2001
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:28:52 -0400
From: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
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To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
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On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 06:49 PM, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> UUNet bills for the MAXIMIUM 95th percentile on inbound OR outbound,
> whichever is higher, as does AboveNet, and probably the majority of
> networks trying to be like UUNet. But a significant portion of other
> networks will bill for the AVERAGE under the 95th percentile.
As an interesting aside to this discussion, Digital Island bills for
total traffic transmitted per month (in GB increments). Does anyone
using them have any comments on this approach besides the obvious? Does
anyone else do a similar deal?
Thanks,
Tim
