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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?)
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > $1 per gigabyte is equivalent to $316/Mbit fairly averaged. > > Yes, but: > > Let's assume that someone sells at $1/gig, then is billed > $316/mb/s/mon by thier provider. Let's further assume that the > customer who is buying at $1/gig is averaging 1 mb/s, but has perfect > sine-wave bandwidth usage, ie, 0 kb/s at midnight, 1 mb/s at 6a, 2 > mb/s and noon, 1 mb/s at 6p, and 0 mb/s again at midnight. (Agreeing > that a perfect sine wave of usage is mostly unlikely, but it's a > reasonable assumption that said customer won't be at the average all > month). Problem: Provider is billed for 2 mb/s. If you can't get enough extra customers based on your better pricing, don't lower your price (or sell it for $2/gig). -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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