On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:59:23 CDT, Joe Greco said:
What prevents a service provider from saying "We're selling you a 15M/2M circuit, and we guarantee that we've got sufficient capacity to consistently deliver at least 4M/512K through our network and to our peers/upstreams?"
Can I have that as "4M guaranteed, burstable to 15M, 95th percentile billing"?
No, you can't. You're buying a consumer-oriented commodity product. Your few words pack a powerful amount of insider knowledge that the overwhelming majority of consumers don't want to have to learn in order to compare vendor offerings. So they aren't asked to. If you want a non-commodity product you'll have to pay a non-commodity price to a niche vendor. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004