I'd say if there's a strong financial reasoning (or greed some times) behind a complaint, it will be brought up, otherwise shouldn't it be all based on civil talks and agreements anyway?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:57 PM, keith tokash <[email protected]> wrote: > 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..... > > > >
