[49898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paying for delivery of packets (was about Sprint Peering, and Importance of Content)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Thu Jul 11 23:34:26 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:33:55 -0400
From: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020711200039.034dbd90@pop3.vo.cnchost.com>; from nanog@vo.cnchost.com on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:00:45PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:00:45PM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
>
> The problem with asymmetric pricing is that the cost of passing the packets
> is equally born by both ends. Take 2 networks that peer, one with mostly
> content, one with mostly eyeballs. The content providers pay a higher
> price *per MB* for bandwidth to their provider than the end user does, but
> both networks have equal costs in transiting the packets from the server to
> the end user.
This might be true per Mbps of capacity, but is simply not true per average
user's MB/month. The typical cable/dsl subscriber still only uses about
5-10 Kbps, averaged over a month. If lots of people start watching video
streams for much of the day, current cable/dsl rates will not survive.
--
Barney Wolff
I never met a computer I didn't like.
