[3946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: renamed: Usage based billing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pushpendra Mohta)
Thu Aug 29 20:59:22 1996
From: Pushpendra Mohta <pushp@CERF.NET>
To: gih@aarnet.edu.au (Geoff Huston)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:45:14 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: peterf@microsoft.com, nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
In-Reply-To: <199608292250.IAA29874@nico.aarnet.edu.au> from "Geoff Huston" at Aug 30, 96 08:50:49 am
Geoff Huston writes:
> bandwidth are metered. Its just a big meter bucket. a 64K access pipe
> can deliver some 21G per month. So charging a flat rate for a 64K
> access is equivalent to charging for a 21G volume of traffic (or part
> thereof).
Not quite. 21 Gigs delivered in less than an hour over a DS3 link
costs much more than delivering it over a month on a 64K link.
ClockRate/Usage based tiered pricing accomodates volume, sustained use
and burst requirements more readily than a pure volume based model.
>
> So another spin on this is that the issue may not be one of metered or
> unmetered, but simply a discussion on the size of the metered unit.
Or its definition ..
>
> Geoff
>
--pushpendra
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