----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Karn" <k...@philkarn.net>
> On 12/06/2013 05:54 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > > Currently, without a limit, there is nothing to convince a end user to > > make any attempt at conserving bandwidth and no revenue to cover the > > cost of additional equipment to serve high bandwidth customers. By > > adding a cap or overage charge we can offer higher speed plans. > > Why is that? > > Just guarantee each user a data rate that depends on how much he pays. > Charge him by what it costs you to build and maintain that much > capacity. Lots of mechanisms exist to do this: token bucket, etc. > > He gets more than his guaranteed capacity only when others don't use > theirs. Otherwise he won't. If that's unacceptable to him, then he has > the choice of paying you more to upgrade your network or waiting for > others to stop using their guarantees. > > It costs you nothing to let people use capacity that would otherwise go > to waste, and it increases the perceived value of your service. Your > customers will eventually find themselves depending on that excess > capacity often enough that at least some will be willing to pay you > more to guarantee that it'll be there when they really want it. +10 We've forgotten the Committed Information Rate already? Cheers, -- jra -- Make Election Day a federal holiday: http://wh.gov/lBm94 100k sigs by 12/14 Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
