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Capacity/transit costs vs growth
- Subject: Capacity/transit costs vs growth
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 02:34:01 -0400
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 2015 17:36:23 -0400." <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Wed, 27 May 2015 17:36:23 -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei said:
> For instance, say end user average capcity usage increases 50% over 3
> years, would the ISP's costs also increase by 50% ?
Depends. If the current gear had enough capacity to absorb the additional
50%, the ISP's costs didn't change. You were blowing 6Gbits/sec down a
10G pipe, and now you're pushing 9, you don't care.
On the other hand, if you were pushing 8 and now need to push 12, you
may have just bought a very expensive forklift upgrade to 40G.
Drastically oversimplified, of course.
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