just for my edufication; I've heard stories strange implementations of 95th percentile billing; <div><br></div><div>my understanding of the 'proper' way is (but happy for this to be debated): </div><div><ul><li>
5minute polls (record) of interface transmit/receive counters,</li><li>sorted from highest to lowest<br></li><li>remove top 5% of entries (records)</li><li>Next entry = 95% level, and so billed.</li><li>So every 5minutes or 12 records per hour x 24h x 30 days [12 x 24 x 30] = 8640 records </li>
<li>remove top 432 records, and next record = 95th percentile. </li></ul><div>This way is kind of like median but rather then 50% at 95%. Wiki article supports this ; </div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Alternative methods I've heard people mention is: </div><div><ul><li>averaging out month worth of records and removing 5% (favorable to the customer)<br></li><li>Using netflow, and taking away top records (not sure how they do it with netflow??)</li>
</ul><div><br></div><div>What I'm wondering is anyone doing things differently in oz and what would the reasons behind that be? </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Paul Foote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pfoote@gmail.com">pfoote@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Greg<<a href="mailto:gregm@servu.net.au">gregm@servu.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> Are there any carriers in Australia who offer 95th percentile bandwidth<br>
> billing like that is available in the US/EU?<br>
<br>
</div>You'll find most carriers will, they just tend to not advertise<br>
pricing. Best bet would be to contact a few for quotes but have a good<br>
idea of your current bandwidth requirements along with future<br>
projections.<br>
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