[AusNOG] Netflix, AWS and Softlayer vs. Australia

[Paul Brooks]

However, this would require NBNCo to have a full billing system and traffic measuring
system for each customer tail to record and bill by usage. For every NBN tail in the
country.
It also requires NBNCo to have the ability to implement its own unilateral throttling
system when a customer tail goes over its data quota, independent of any recourse to
the RSP servicing that customer.

Think of the load and cost increase on RSP call-centres when NBNCo throttles links and
RSP doesn't know about it yet.

Thats a big data usage collection and recording system, and variable billing system to
send per-end-user traffic measurements every day/week/month to the ISPs for the ISPs
to include in their billing/traffic plan systems (and notification systems for 'you
have approached 50% of your quota' per TCP Code). Big investment by each and every RSP
to incorporate this data into their own traffic and billing management systems.

Currently, NBNCo doesn't need anything like this, to do unchanging price-per-month
invoicing to the ISPs based on what was ordered at start-of-contract, not what was
used - and the RSPs billing and IT processing systems also stay much simpler.

I'd love to see the analysis redone for the increased billing, traffic measurement and
customer-service costs in both wholesalers and retailers before anyone tries to
implement wholesaler-measuring of traffic data usage volumes.






On 5/12/2014 11:37 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> The brings us back to the NBN and the artificial limits on link
> speed.  This skewed the cost benefit analysis by introducing
> willingness to pay for speed.  Many of the benefits of a fibre
> network come from having the high speed available when you need it.
> Most people don't need high speed most of the time.  It doesn't
> cost anymore to provide the last mile at full speed.  The system
> just needs price feedback to avoid abuse.  That feedback doesn't
> have to be done as link speed.
>
> I'd love to see the analysis redone where everyone on fibre had the
> full link speed available to them but there were monthly volume
> limits included.
>
> Mark