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I know one company in Europe that uses the in + out model. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Rubenstein" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: What does 95th %tile mean? > > I've gotten myself into an argument with a provider about the definition of > 'industry-standard 95th percentile method.' > > To me, this means the following: > > a) take the number of bytes xfered over a 5 minute period, and determine > rate for both the inbound and outbound. Store this in your favorite > data-store. > > b) at billing time, presumably on the first of the month or some other > monthly increment, take all the samples, sort them from greatest to least, > hacking off the top 5% of samples. Actually, this is done twice, once for > inbound, once for outbound. Then, take the higher of those two, and multiply > it by your favorite $ multiple (ie, $500 per megabit per second, or $1 per > kilobit per second, etc). > > I think that most people agree with the above; the issue we are running into > is one rogue provider who is billing this at in + out, not the greater of in > or out. > > How is everyone else doing it? Specifically, larger folks (UU, Sprint, CW, > Exodus/FGC, GX, Qwest, L3) > > Thanks! >
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