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Re: Fair Use Policy
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:00 +1000
In message <391AF4EB-239D-4982-8682-643253440B3A () seanharlow info>, Sean Harlow writes:
On Aug 22, 2012, at 21:25, William Herrin wrote:Works for the electric company, the gas company, the water company, etc. Metering I mean, not a use cap. The notion of a cap is pretty broken.The difference is that gas, water, and electricity are all resources that have actual costs relevant to consumer and SMB-level users. A fiber-optic line costs the same to operate regardless of if it is carrying no data or entirely maxed out. Higher-capacity optics at each end of course cost money, but they're fixed cost items which are deployed once and don't often need replacement during their useful life (especially given the growth rate of network traffic). Longer runs obviously need repeaters capable of handling the data rates in use, but the same applies. As far as I can tell, the actual cost of the bits being transferred is so minuscule as to be practically irrelevant for anyone who's not at the scale to be dealing directly with Tier 1 carriers. Capacity costs money, but once it's there utilization is nothing.
Which is why bigger users get discounts on a per GB basis. The cost to the consumer has a fixed component which basically covers the last mile, accounting etc. and variable component which covers the cost of shipping the bits over the rest of the network which is almost always over subscribed. The difference between business and residential reflects, or should reflect, the level of over subscription and some penalty allowance to cover out of standard hours repairs to meet SLA. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
Current thread:
- Re: Fair Use Policy, (continued)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Jimmy Hess (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Benjamin Krueger (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Jimmy Hess (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Joe Greco (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Benjamin Krueger (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Owen DeLong (Aug 22)
- RE: Fair Use Policy Frank Bulk (Aug 23)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Owen DeLong (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy William Herrin (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Sean Harlow (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Mark Andrews (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Shahab Vahabzadeh (Aug 22)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Eugeniu Patrascu (Aug 23)
- Re: Fair Use Policy Dan White (Aug 23)