North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 95th Percentile != Lame
> I still fail to see how "peak bits" or "bursted bits" are more expensive > than "regular bits". A 100Mbit FE port costs whatever it costs, and does > not fluctuate with usage. This is true of almost all of your links within > the network - excluding those where you have negotiated usage-based > billing. An OC3, point to point, costs as much as it costs irrelevant of > its usage. Therefore, every bit that crosses this circuit has a cost. > > Why not simply pass this cost on to the customer bit for bit? It is NOT that the each bit has the same cost - it is the cost of maintaining enough EXTRA bandwidth so that the downstreams do not bounce up against the ceiling. That amount is basically covered by using the 95 rule.
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