North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
> I have a feeling providers will start managing/reducing the > excess capacity headroom in their networks. And will start looking at > ways to wring more money out of their current customers. Some rocket > science accountant somewhere should be working on a way to maximize the > chargable usage by just shifting the window bins back and forth until > he finds the maximum. This would work well for end-users. Buy outbound time on inbound-heavy networks, and vice-versa. Route updates are too slow to move the content around, otherwise a really savvy and cheap buyer could keep thier "current" server in the dark part of the planet full time and get excess bandwidth for next to nothing all day. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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