In a working transport system, what goes in must come out. So, if you add all the ports in a common direction (in or out), you'll at least get a nice aggregate even if you can't measure individual virtual circuits properly due to whatever brokeass vendor you're using. :)

... which doesn't take into account distance. Assume for a moment you sell a customer a port in Newark, NYC, and London. Clearly, a bit from nyc to newark should be priced differently than one from nyc to london. Agreed?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:16:43PM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

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In a working transport system, what goes in must come out. So, if you add all the ports in a common direction (in or out), you'll at least get a nice aggregate even if you can't measure individual virtual circuits properly due to whatever brokeass vendor you're using. :)

... which doesn't take into account distance.

Assume for a moment you sell a customer a port in Newark, NYC, and London.

Clearly, a bit from nyc to newark should be priced differently than one from nyc to london.

Agreed?

Yes... Based on the current market, the circuit from NYC to Newark is going to be way more expensive than a larger circuit from NYC to London. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)