On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:54 AM, PC wrote: > An optimal solution would be a tiered system where the adjusted price only > applies to traffic units over the price tier threshold and not retroactively > to all traffic units.
Optimal for whom? Also, I doubt you can make that claim as you do not know the costs or other business conditions of every deal. -- TTFN, patrick > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Brandon Galbraith > <brandon.galbra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net>wrote: > > > > If you have a lot more, you can negotiate tiers. E.g. The first 10G is > > $X/Mbps, but if you hit 20G, you get charged 20000 * $Y (where Y < X, > > obviously). This can lead to interesting situations where 19 Gbps costs > > more than 20 Gbps. But dems da breaks. > > > > -- > > TTFN, > > patrick > > > > I knew of a place that used to push "fake" traffic over a link to ensure > they were in the cheaper (higher) tier. Who knew business rules overriding > engineering could result in non-optimal situations. > > -- > Brandon Galbraith > US Voice: 630.492.0464 >
