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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: "Vint Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful"
Where does 95th percentile fit into this? On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:59:37PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > >Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful > > Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical > connections as well. > > From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost > from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and > is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that > pleasure. Yes, one can degrade that customers performance by ratelimiting > or such, or prioritizing other customers traffic or something else, but > the 90/10 rule saves some of it, the problem is when the 90% start doing > the same, then the flat rate business model is a problem and does not > scale. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] -- Bubba Parker [email protected] CityNet LLC http://www.citynetinfo.com/
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