Um, wha? There are providers that will do "one-way" billing (charging less per Mb/s in one direction than the other), but the majority of usage-based transit services are sold without regard to which directino the highest traffic goes. Now peering, that's a different story. Peering partners, for better or for worse, will get snippy if in/out traffic ratios are out of whack. -C On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:48:49PM -0700, Gironda, Andre wrote:
All ISP's selling transit ask for strict traffic ratios. How often do you think they get what they ask for? I would guess not very often. People like flat rate 95th% with no minimal commitment (both the seller and buyer) because that's easy to keep track of. Simplicity is king, again.
Cogent's deals were to make things easy, right?
I don't know what they charge, but anyone can see that an offer like 100Mbps for $10,000 a month makes sense in terms of simplicity (not saying it makes sense in terms of a transit provider making any money, tho) ;>
-dre
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Golding [mailto:dgolding@sockeye.com] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:52 PM To: 'Alex Rubenstein'; 'Gironda, Andre' Cc: 'Andy Dills'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Qwest Transit
Hmm. Cogent does require some semi-strict traffic ratios to get the really good deals. If it's not violating an NDA, is Qwest asking for similar ones, these days?
- Dan