Re: Qwest Transit

[Chris Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>]

Um, wha?

There are providers that will do "one-way" billing (charging less per Mb/s 
in one direction than the other), but the majority of usage-based transit 
services are sold without regard to which directino the highest traffic 
goes.

Now peering, that's a different story. Peering partners, for better or for 
worse, will get snippy if in/out traffic ratios are out of whack.

-C

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:48:49PM -0700, Gironda, Andre wrote:
> All ISP's selling transit ask for strict traffic ratios.
> How often do you think they get what they ask for?  I
> would guess not very often.  People like flat rate 95th%
> with no minimal commitment (both the seller and buyer)
> because that's easy to keep track of.  Simplicity is king,
> again.
>
> Cogent's deals were to make things easy, right?
>
> I don't know what they charge, but anyone can see that
> an offer like 100Mbps for $10,000 a month makes sense
> in terms of simplicity (not saying it makes sense in
> terms of a transit provider making any money, tho) ;>
>
> -dre
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Golding [mailto:dgolding () sockeye com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:52 PM
> > To: 'Alex Rubenstein'; 'Gironda, Andre'
> > Cc: 'Andy Dills'; nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: RE: Qwest Transit
> >
> >
> > Hmm. Cogent does require some semi-strict traffic ratios to get the
> > really good deals. If it's not violating an NDA, is Qwest asking for
> > similar ones, these days?
> >
> > - Dan

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