[70445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan M. Slivko)
Fri May 14 19:27:33 2004
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:26:55 -0400
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@invisiblehand.net>
To: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.1.20040514183345.025ab588@pop.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Rob,
>
> What's your cost on managing the bandwidth? You're basically creating
> on-demand frame circuits, and balancing them is tricky (actually,
> deciding on an oversubscription ratio is easy, dealing with the
> customers is the tricky part!) on a low-margin basis. Of course, if
> you're a BofH or a sales guy, I expect that to be less bothersome than
> if you're a techie who has to actually talk to the customer when their
> neighbor takes up their bandwidth. Sometimes I wish I could be a bit
> more slimey to make paying the bills less painful *sigh*
Actually, our model doesn't allow for oversubscription as it's a
committed (meaning you have the bandwidth that you purchased guaranteed
to you), dynamic rate.
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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
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