[99872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Mon Oct 8 08:08:59 2007
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:06:48 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <65906A49-7E4E-4B8A-AC49-9342B09B7152@nosignal.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <65906A49-7E4E-4B8A-AC49-9342B09B7152@nosignal.org>, Andy
Davidson <andy@nosignal.org> writes
>In this bit of Europe (UK), it's the opposite: the cable companies
>(CLEC style companies) tend to run unlimited (but within fair use)
>aggregate throughput policies, but the DSL operating companies have to
>impose aggregate throughput caps because the last mile connectivity is
>run by the national incumbent.
Surely the incumbent doesn't impose a cost on the bandwidth along the
local loop - the bottleneck (and cost per gigabyte) is the backhaul from
their locally operated DSLAM to the ISP's own network.
--
Roland Perry
