[38302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Sun Jun 3 00:46:42 2001
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > $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.
If you can't get enough extra customers based on your better pricing,
don't lower your price (or sell it for $2/gig).
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