[38356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 95th Percentile != Lame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Sun Jun 3 23:33:31 2001
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 23:32:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: James Thomason <james@divide.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:16:28PM -0700, James Thomason wrote:
>
> This is very true. You have also in this example, defined your basis
> of cost and could effectively say "Today, every bit that crosses my
> network costs me X". This is a hard, quantified and total cost that
> includes all of your provisioned capacity.
Also, 95th percentile does not take into account peak hours for its
pricing. You could push your peak traffic at off-peak hours and still be
billed a very high amount. A more sensible system would be a different
price for on-peak times.
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