[55644] in North American Network Operators' Group
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Feb 5 13:48:49 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:47:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Lynn Bashaw <LBashaw@yipes.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <424769F9B8BE6249825C23CFCA0A424701953439@denexh01.yipes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Lynn Bashaw wrote:
> Does anyone on the list know of any ISPs that bill based on average
> utilization, rather than some variation of 95th percentile?
Average is just a function of total and time, and time progresses linearly
with time, so average x some $ figure is just the same as saying total x
some other $ figure.
So most people would just look at that as being billing based upon total
traffic volume, which yes, there are folks who do. I don't know of any in
the U.S., but it's very common overseas, particularly places which have
satellite links in their upstream path.
-Bill
