[AusNOG] Suggestions: Moving from Layer 3 to Layer 2

[Joseph Goldman]

It'd be too hard to apply an overall formula to this, it is dependent on your users. Businesses can tend to use a lot of data but very little off peak, same as gamers and leechers but all times of day , but then you could have very easy mum and dad users that barely use 10% of their quota. 
Also then with a L2 set up you need to make sure that you have enough at your highest peak throughput, not enough over an average of the month, else battle the congestion problems. 

The best thing to do is to extrapolate off your current customers data, if your provider can offer an aggregate bandwidth graph of your L3 users that will give you an idea of peak usage, and use quota level data to determine, on average across your user base, how much they actually use of their quota in %, and base your pricing on that. 

Samantha Scafe <samantha at smellyblackdog.com.au> wrote:

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