North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 95th Percentile != Lame
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:16:28PM -0700, James Thomason wrote: > > This is very true. You have also in this example, defined your basis > of cost and could effectively say "Today, every bit that crosses my > network costs me X". This is a hard, quantified and total cost that > includes all of your provisioned capacity. Also, 95th percentile does not take into account peak hours for its pricing. You could push your peak traffic at off-peak hours and still be billed a very high amount. A more sensible system would be a different price for on-peak times. -- 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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