3 Jun
2001
3 Jun
'01
10:42 p.m.
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.