[99875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Mon Oct 8 09:03:21 2007
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: 08 Oct 2007 13:01:35 GMT
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In article <312BF2DA-8482-4312-9ACF-6A8DD4621862@nosignal.org>,
Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org> wrote:
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>On 8 Oct 2007, at 13:06, Roland Perry wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>Yes, and it's 1,758,693 ($3.5m) PA for a 622Mbit BT Central, (so in
>bandwidth terms, equates to $471/Mbit per month - if the central is
>maxxed out).
Wow. The pricing of the local incumbent in .NL is public - you
can find everything on www.kpn-wholesale.com. Here is a direct
link to the pdf with wholesale-prices:
http://www.kpn-wholesale.com/content/doc/WBA%20annex%204%20CM%20v1.3.pdf
I guess it's about 50-100 times cheaper, but OTOH, we only put
like ~3000 customers on an STM-4, so we need way more of them.
Mike.
