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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Pricing model for transit services
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:50:17PM -0700, Lane Patterson wrote: > > > Also, some large ISP's have a policy that you must buy the whole pipe > > unmetered if your commit is >50% pipe speed. > > Never heard that one, but conversly most ISPs have a minimum commit for I have, but not 50%.. usually around 75% and the way I've seen it is you pay for the 75% and that gets you the full pipe unmetered. ie the extra 25% is FOC but its not really that usable anyhow as you know.. Steve > "big expensive ports". For example, 1 meg commits on FastE ports are > usually fine because almost nobody still has ports that are only 10Mbit > Ethernet. But noone in their right mind will give GigE ports to 10Mbit > committers, for potential abuse reasons and port cost reasons at the very > least. > > > And there are at least 4 ways of computing 95th percentile, though I'm sure > > there've already been threads on this. > > There is only one way, anyone else is computing "something else" that they > just happen to bill with. But this sounds like a subject for the NANOG > FAQ. :) > >
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