[79158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Vint Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bubba Parker)
Thu Mar 31 12:07:15 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:01:56 -0600
From: Bubba Parker <sysadmin@citynetwireless.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503311856230.2784@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Where does 95th percentile fit into this?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:59:37PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> >Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful
>
> Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical
> connections as well.
>
> From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost
> from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and
> is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that
> pleasure. Yes, one can degrade that customers performance by ratelimiting
> or such, or prioritizing other customers traffic or something else, but
> the 90/10 rule saves some of it, the problem is when the 90% start doing
> the same, then the flat rate business model is a problem and does not
> scale.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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