Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

[Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>]

On 12/15/2010 3:51 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> That depends on your definition of 'never'.  You can oversell your
> network capacity...everyone does...and not run with the pipes full 99%
> or better of the time.

At max capacity, we'd run roughly double our total transit capacity, yet 
we rarely exceed 70% of N+1 bandwidth before upgrading. Perhaps my model 
doesn't scale when people utilize multiple 10G, though, as I know I have 
several burstable 10G available for special events and such as a just in 
case option. The price of 100G interfaces currently is still too high 
for someone to actually want a burstable 100G circuit with only a 30 or 
50 gig commit.


Jack