[99873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Mon Oct 8 08:25:52 2007
In-Reply-To: <iyVsI0GY1hCHFAx2@donald.internetpolicynews.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:18:42 +0100
To: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8 Oct 2007, at 13:06, Roland Perry wrote:
> Surely the incumbent doesn't impose a cost on the bandwidth along =20
> the local loop - the bottleneck (and cost per gigabyte) is the =20
> backhaul from their locally operated DSLAM to the ISP's own network.
Yes, and it's =A31,758,693 ($3.5m) PA for a 622Mbit BT Central, (so in =20=
bandwidth terms, equates to $471/Mbit per month - if the central is =20
maxxed out).
(Using $2=3D=A31)=
