I'm sorry I should have been more specific. I'm referring to the *percentage* of a circuit's bandwidth. For example if you order a 20Mb site to site circuit and iperf shows 17Mb. Well ... that's 15% off, which sounds hefty, but I'm not sure what's realistic to expect.
And beyond expectations, I'm wondering if there's a threshold that industry movers/shakers generally yell at their vendor for going below, and try to get a refund or move the link to a new port/box. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400 > CC: [email protected] > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:24:46 -0700, keith tokash said: > > > Is there an industry standard regarding how much bandwidth an inter-carrier > > circuit should guarantee? > > How are you going to come up with a standard that covers both the uplink from > Billy-Bob's Bait, Fish, Tackle, and Wifi, where a fractional gigabit may be > plenty, and the size pipes that got clogged in the recent Netflix network > neutrality kerfluffle? > > And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a peering > agreement with another carrier, and you exchange 35Gbits/sec of traffic, the > bandwidth at each peer point will depend on whether you peer at one location, > or 5, or 7, or 15..... >
