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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 95th Percentile again (was RE: C&W Peering Problem?)
> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:28:52 -0400 > From: Timothy Brown <[email protected]> > > As an interesting aside to this discussion, Digital Island bills for > total traffic transmitted per month (in GB increments). Does anyone > using them have any comments on this approach besides the obvious? Does > anyone else do a similar deal? I only care to mention the obvious... this is essentially the same type of billing as average-use total traffic billing. Total traffic in + out, just not divided by number of days in a month. :-) I can't recall names, but I believe that several colo shops (space + bandwidth, not carrier-neutral, a la Exodus) do this. IMHO, 95th percentile has its drawbacks. Sure, one can charge more for "peaky" customers than with average-use billing, but that can backfire in extreme cases: Recall when the Starr Report was released... 5% of a month is 1.5 days, so the heavy traffic during that time was simply "above the cutoff". Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet Division Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <[email protected]>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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