[52294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pricing model for transit services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Sep 23 16:14:55 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:12:52 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Lane Patterson <lane@laneandmimi.com>,
Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>,
"Olivier.Bonaventure@info.fundp.ac.be" <Olivier.Bonaventure@info.fundp.ac.be>,
"suh@info.ucl.ac.be" <suh@info.ucl.ac.be>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020923200747.GQ1123@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Lane Patterson wrote:
>
> > Also, some large ISP's have a policy that you must buy the whole pipe
> > unmetered if your commit is >50% pipe speed.
>
> Never heard that one, but conversly most ISPs have a minimum commit for
I have, but not 50%.. usually around 75% and the way I've seen it is you pay for
the 75% and that gets you the full pipe unmetered. ie the extra 25% is FOC but
its not really that usable anyhow as you know..
Steve
> "big expensive ports". For example, 1 meg commits on FastE ports are
> usually fine because almost nobody still has ports that are only 10Mbit
> Ethernet. But noone in their right mind will give GigE ports to 10Mbit
> committers, for potential abuse reasons and port cost reasons at the very
> least.
>
> > And there are at least 4 ways of computing 95th percentile, though I'm sure
> > there've already been threads on this.
>
> There is only one way, anyone else is computing "something else" that they
> just happen to bill with. But this sounds like a subject for the NANOG
> FAQ. :)
>
>
