On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > As far as I know, the actual pipes leading out of Israel (fiber and > satellites) are far from being fully utilized (I no longer have up to > date figures, but I'd be surprised if int'l connectivity is at over 50% > capacity), and its cheaper to get more bandwidth "on demand" then lower > throughput to customers, in case of unexpected usage peaks.
But that's not my point. While it's cheaper to get more bandwidth on demand, if you are trying to raise profits in anticipation of selling the company, then the easiest way is to limit your throughput, if you pay by either (or both) throughput (bytes transfered) or peak demand. Since during peak demand people have gotten used to lower performance, they hardly could tell. If you can limit your peak bandwidth to 90% of what it was and save 10% of your real costs, it would make a big difference. Your customers probably would not notice, but the purchaser of your company would. By the time the customers figured out what happened, the sale would have been made, and you would be sitting on a beach in Tahiti. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
