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I meant any sales guy selling transit would "like to" ask for strict traffic ratios, while in reality, they don't actually do this. Your email is right on otherwise. I do believe that many transit offerings in the past and currently require some kind of strict traffic ratio to *some* companies. If you still don't think so, drop me an email offline and we can chat more about it. -dre > Thats a mighty fine crack pipe you're smoking from. > > The majority of 95th percentile providers that I am aware of will > charge you only for whatever is higher, inbound OR outbound (the notable > exception to this being Exodus, who added in+out and THEN took 95th > percentile, to extract every last penny from your pocket). > > Infact depending on the provider you choose, you might even be able > to strike some better deals based on your ratios. For example, rumor > has it that Google struck a great deal with AboveNet because all their > inbound traffic (from spidering) helped balance out AboveNet's > peering links (I don't know if that story is accurate or not, but > it has a ring of truth to it). > > To my knowledge Cogent is the only provider who asks for traffic > ratios on their transit connections. The reason? Probably because > Cogent is already taking a massive massive loss on anything they > must transit. Their only chance to make money at the end of the day > is to get as much peering as quickly as possible (hence their buying > spree of "hosed" companys who just happened to have lots of legacy > peering), and since they are answerable to their peers for their > ratios they must pass on those requirements to their customers. > > It's interesting to note how much inbound traffic is "in demand" > by hosting providers. With the breakup of @Home into many regional > cable companies, most of whom havn't the slightest bit of clue how > to build a network let alone a backbone, the traffic profiles change > greatly. My prediction is that a lot of traffic which used to be > peered into @Home at "major exchange points" will turn into transit > connections from other providers. Unfortunately for the cable > companies, the people who they could get the best deals from (the > "mostly hosters") tend to be highly based around the "major exchange > points" cities (to most efficiently pump traffic into the rest of > the internet), not the "rest of the world". > > -- 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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