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Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?


From: Rafael Possamai <rafael () gav ufsc br>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:13:59 -0500

I'd say if there's a strong financial reasoning (or greed some times)
behind a complaint, it will be brought up, otherwise shouldn't it be all
based on civil talks and agreements anyway?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:57 PM, keith tokash <ktokash () hotmail com> wrote:

I'm sorry I should have been more specific.  I'm referring to the
*percentage* of a circuit's bandwidth.  For example if you order a 20Mb
site to site circuit and iperf shows 17Mb.  Well ... that's 15% off, which
sounds hefty, but I'm not sure what's realistic to expect.

And beyond expectations, I'm wondering if there's a threshold that
industry movers/shakers generally yell at their vendor for going below, and
try to get a refund or move the link to a new port/box.




To: ktokash () hotmail com
Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400
CC: nanog () nanog org

On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:24:46 -0700, keith tokash said:

Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an
inter-carrier circuit should guarantee?

How are you going to come up with a standard that covers both the uplink
from
Billy-Bob's Bait, Fish, Tackle, and Wifi, where a fractional gigabit may
be
plenty, and the size pipes that got clogged in the recent Netflix network
neutrality kerfluffle?

And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a
peering
agreement with another carrier, and you exchange 35Gbits/sec of traffic,
the
bandwidth at each peer point will depend on whether you peer at one
location,
or 5, or 7, or 15.....





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