[52286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pricing model for transit services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Mon Sep 23 11:29:22 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:26:22 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "Olivier.Bonaventure@info.fundp.ac.be" <Olivier.Bonaventure@info.fundp.ac.be>,
"suh@info.ucl.ac.be" <suh@info.ucl.ac.be>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3D8EE0D8.B347A680@info.fundp.ac.be>
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> - flat fee for a L Mbps link
Also known as 'fractional' or 'tiered.' $x for y mb/s, and it is
rate-limited.
> - volume based, y $ per Mbps (95% quantile) for a L Mbps link
> - burstable, flat fee for x Mbps on a L Mbps and z $ per Mbps above x
These two are essentially the same. You do have three variations of
usage-based, however:
a) vth percentile: $x per y zzzbits/sec, with a t committment.
Occasionally, any usage over t has a different price.
b) 'Average usage', which is is the same as A, but using an averaging
measurement system, rather than a percentile system (50th percentile is
NOT the same as, or even relevant to, average).
c) counting bytes: $x per y bytes.
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