Re: Outbound traffic on a circuit?

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 11/21/14 11:42 AM, Justin Wilson wrote:
> But I am buying 1 Gig on a 1 Gig circuit.  I could see if it were
> burstable but it was being billed as 1Gig on a Gig circuit.

If you're buying 1Gig commit then you're buying 1gig commit.

That's not the contract you described.

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> On 11/19/14, 8:40 PM, "joel jaeggli" <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
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> > On 11/19/14 12:40 PM, Justin Wilson wrote:
> > > I am looking at an order for a well known upstream provider.  They are
> > > handing me a circuit at a data center.  The contract reads if we use
> > > more
> > > than 50% of the outbound the price gets re-priced and almost doubles.
> > > How
> > > many folks have ran into this?
> >
> > if you're buying 500Mb/s commit 95th percentile on a 1Gb/s circuit or
> > 5Gb/s on 10 then you can expect a contract to specify an upcharge
> > accordingly if you bust your commit.
> >
> > I generally look for terms that provide a relavitily short notification
> > window for uping my commit. e.g. 6 weeks or less.
> >
> > > Justin
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> > > Justin Wilson <j2sw () mtin net>
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> > > Podcast about xISP topics
> > > http://www.midwest-ix.com
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