On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Christopher Snell wrote: > On 6/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, he's right. 60$/mbit *is* cost per rate, because bandwidth is usually > > billed based on 95th percentile. In other words, if you sell 23 concurrent > > channels, it is reasonable to expect that at least 5% of time, 20+ > > channels will be in use, and thus you would be obligated to pay for > > roughly 1Mbit of IP transit capacity. > > I'm afraid you both are wrong. A megabit is 1,000,000 bits or > approximately 125,000 bytes--data volume. He *meant* to say "megabit > per second", a rate measurement. Telco sales droids may call a T1 a > "1.554 megabit" connection, it is a "1.554 megabit-per-second" > connection. sweet jebus, is it going to come to that? This is a telecom industry mailing list. If someone doesn't recognize that "60$/mbit" really means "60$/mbit/second" - they should be flipping frigging burgers, not posting here.
> > You going to have to do better than that if you want to do mailing > > list criticism. > > I suggest you do some reading on Wikipedia. *plonk* _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
