[46716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Mon Apr 8 23:05:09 2002
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:03:28 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: "Gironda, Andre" <agironda@ebay.com>
Cc: 'Daniel Golding' <dgolding@sockeye.com>,
'Alex Rubenstein' <alex@nac.net>, 'Andy Dills' <andy@xecu.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
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Um, wha?
There are providers that will do "one-way" billing (charging less per Mb/s=
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in one direction than the other), but the majority of usage-based transit=
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services are sold without regard to which directino the highest traffic=20
goes.
Now peering, that's a different story. Peering partners, for better or for=
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worse, will get snippy if in/out traffic ratios are out of whack.
-C
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:48:49PM -0700, Gironda, Andre wrote:
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> All ISP's selling transit ask for strict traffic ratios.
> How often do you think they get what they ask for? I
> would guess not very often. People like flat rate 95th%
> with no minimal commitment (both the seller and buyer)
> because that's easy to keep track of. Simplicity is king,
> again.
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> Cogent's deals were to make things easy, right?
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> I don't know what they charge, but anyone can see that
> an offer like 100Mbps for $10,000 a month makes sense
> in terms of simplicity (not saying it makes sense in
> terms of a transit provider making any money, tho) ;>
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> -dre
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Golding [mailto:dgolding@sockeye.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:52 PM
> > To: 'Alex Rubenstein'; 'Gironda, Andre'
> > Cc: 'Andy Dills'; nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: Qwest Transit
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> >=20
> > Hmm. Cogent does require some semi-strict traffic ratios to get the
> > really good deals. If it's not violating an NDA, is Qwest asking for
> > similar ones, these days?
> >=20
> > - Dan
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