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Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan () fugawi net>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:07:37 -0400
Isn't in+out a more fair representation of usage? I've always assumed that this was the standard to be honest. Thank god I'm not the billing person. I think Exodus does in+out. -M At 03:06 PM 4/19/2001 -0400, Thomas Kernen wrote:
I know one company in Europe that uses the in + out model. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex () corp nac net> To: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: What does 95th %tile mean? > > I've gotten myself into an argument with a provider about the definition of > 'industry-standard 95th percentile method.' > > To me, this means the following: > > a) take the number of bytes xfered over a 5 minute period, and determine > rate for both the inbound and outbound. Store this in your favorite > data-store. > > b) at billing time, presumably on the first of the month or some other > monthly increment, take all the samples, sort them from greatest to least, > hacking off the top 5% of samples. Actually, this is done twice, once for> inbound, once for outbound. Then, take the higher of those two, and multiply> it by your favorite $ multiple (ie, $500 per megabit per second, or $1 per > kilobit per second, etc). >> I think that most people agree with the above; the issue we are running into > is one rogue provider who is billing this at in + out, not the greater of in> or out. > > How is everyone else doing it? Specifically, larger folks (UU, Sprint, CW, > Exodus/FGC, GX, Qwest, L3) > > Thanks! >
Regards, -- Martin Hannigan hannigan () fugawi net Fugawi Networks Founder/Director of Implementation Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net Ph: 617.742.2693 Fax: 617.742.2300
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