[38283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Sat Jun 2 19:44:24 2001
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:43:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
Cc: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:28:52 -0400
> From: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
>
> 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?
I only care to mention the obvious... this is essentially the same type of
billing as average-use total traffic billing. Total traffic in + out,
just not divided by number of days in a month. :-)
I can't recall names, but I believe that several colo shops (space +
bandwidth, not carrier-neutral, a la Exodus) do this.
IMHO, 95th percentile has its drawbacks. Sure, one can charge more for
"peaky" customers than with average-use billing, but that can backfire in
extreme cases: Recall when the Starr Report was released... 5% of a month
is 1.5 days, so the heavy traffic during that time was simply "above the
cutoff".
Eddy
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