[94054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Sun Jan 7 18:55:47 2007
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:53:42 +0000
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFF3D559D6.4704311E-ON8025725C.004E5CEB-8025725C.005002FF@btradianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
> I have to admit that I have no idea how BT charges
> ISPs for wholesale ADSL. If there is indeed some kind
> of metered charging then Internet video will be a big
> problem for the business model.
They vary, it depends on what pricing model has been selected.
http://tinyurl.com/yjgsum has BT Central pipe pricing. Note those are
prices, not telephone numbers. ;-)
If you convert into per-megabit charges - at least an order of magnitude
greater than the cost of transit, and at least a couple of orders of
magnitude more than peering/partial transit.
p2p is no panacea to get around these charges; in the worst case p2p
traffic will just transit your central pipe twice, which means the
situation is worse with p2p not better.
For a smaller UK ISP, I do not know if there is a credible wholesale LLU
alternative to BT.
Note this information is of course completely UK-centric. A more
regionalised model (21CN?!) would change the situation.
Will
