[1898] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Understanding Combits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Simmons)
Mon Jan 6 20:22:20 1992
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 20:17:30 EST
In-Reply-To: <9201062354.AA03965@saturn.hsi.com>; from "Gary Wright" at Jan 6, 92 11:54:04 pm
In the message "Understanding Combits", on Jan 6 Jordan Becker writes:
> A COMBIT is a directionless unit of measure that quantifies the flow of
> traffic between two unique network numbers. COMBITs are collected at a
> gateway between two service providers and may be defined as:
>
> COMBITs = [packets_in + packets_out]*300 + [bytes_in + bytes_out]
Question -- are the bits that go to *my house* commercial or not? Or
more explicitly, is residential == commercial?
