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?)
I believe, as well, that 95th %tile billing is quite dumb, and there are better measurements (gigs, average (which, remember is not 50th %tile)), and there are no measurements at all ($x for y mb/s, whether you use it or not). Then again, VHS beat out BetaMax. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net -- On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > 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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