Re: 95th Percentile != Lame

[woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Sunday, June 3, 2001 at 11:39:21 (-0700), James Thomason wrote: ]
> Subject: 95th Percentile = Lame
>
> If I am not mistaken, the true "benefit" to 95% billing is that it allows
> the provider to charge for bits they never delivered.

You are mistaken!  :-)

The true benefit of Nth percentile billing is that it allows the
provider to sell low-cost, very high-speed, ports and only charge the
customer for the true costs (plus profit) that customer incurs.

For example it allows the ISP to sell a 100baseTX connection to a
customer who only really needs about 128kbps or less, but who happens to
be in the next rack/cage/room/etc. from your network.