Geoff Huston writes:
bandwidth are metered. Its just a big meter bucket. a 64K access pipe can deliver some 21G per month. So charging a flat rate for a 64K access is equivalent to charging for a 21G volume of traffic (or part thereof).
Not quite. 21 Gigs delivered in less than an hour over a DS3 link costs much more than delivering it over a month on a 64K link. ClockRate/Usage based tiered pricing accomodates volume, sustained use and burst requirements more readily than a pure volume based model.
So another spin on this is that the issue may not be one of metered or unmetered, but simply a discussion on the size of the metered unit.
Or its definition ..
Geoff
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