[38296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sun Jun 3 00:26:41 2001
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:28:54 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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> $1 per gigabyte is equivalent to $316/Mbit fairly averaged.
Yes, but:
Let's assume that someone sells at $1/gig, then is billed $316/mb/s/mon by
thier provider. Let's further assume that the customer who is buying at
$1/gig is averaging 1 mb/s, but has perfect sine-wave bandwidth usage, ie,
0 kb/s at midnight, 1 mb/s at 6a, 2 mb/s and noon, 1 mb/s at 6p, and 0
mb/s again at midnight. (Agreeing that a perfect sine wave of usage is
mostly unlikely, but it's a reasonable assumption that said customer won't
be at the average all month). Problem: Provider is billed for 2 mb/s.
