Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-11-02 Thread Joe Greco
Consider a better analogy from the provider side: A customer bakes a nice beautiful fruit cake for their Aunt Eddie in wilds of Saskatchewan. The cake is 10 kg - but they want to make sure it gets to Eddie properly, so they wrap it in foil, then bubble wrap, then put it in a box. They

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread David Hofstee
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] Namens Joe Greco Verzonden: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:02 PM Aan: Rafael Possamai CC: keith tokash; nanog@nanog.org Onderwerp: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? ... A silly example would be this: you fill your

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Jeff Sorrels
And if you look at it from the provider's prospective, they have lots of customers who want 12 gallons of gas worth of driving time, but only want to pay for 11 gallons (or worse, went to gasspeedtest.net and it showed their purchased gas only gave them 10 gallons worth of driving time).

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Bacon, Ricky (RJ)
That *is* a silly example. A more proper analogy would be that you buy 12 gallons of gas, but the station only deposits 11 gallons in your tank because the pumps are operated by gasoline engines and they feel it is fine to count the number of gallons pulled out of their tank instead of the

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sorrels Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 16:14 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? And if you look at it from the provider's prospective, they have lots of customers who want 12 gallons of gas worth

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Rafael Possamai
-Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Sorrels Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 16:14 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? And if you look at it from the provider's prospective, they have lots of customers who want 12

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Frank Bulk
-Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bacon, Ricky (RJ) Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 11:50 AM To: David Hofstee; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? That *is* a silly example. A more proper analogy would be that you buy 12

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-31 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on this exactly what we do, keeps the calls down. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com On 10/31/14, 9:56 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote: If you're

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Carlos Alcantar
For access side (home users) we have slightly over provisioned there circuits, to minimize the I¹m paying for 20 why am I getting 19 type of calls. Provision them out to 25 they get 23-24 on there speedtest everyone is happy. Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: 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? And where your PoPs are (and how many) matters as well - if you have a peering

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Ben Sjoberg bensjob...@gmail.com wrote: That 3Mb difference is probably just packet overhead + congestion Yes... however, that's actually an industry standard of implying higher performance than reality, because end users don't care about the datagram overhead

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, keith tokash 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

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Dorian Kim
On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Ben Sjoberg bensjob...@gmail.com wrote: That 3Mb difference is probably just packet overhead + congestion Yes... however, that's actually an industry standard of implying higher

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Rafael Possamai
You can't just ignore protocol overhead (or any system's overhead). If an application requires X bits per second of actual payload, then your system should be designed properly and take into account overhead, as well as failure rates, peak utilization hours, etc. This is valid for networking,

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, and this industry would perhaps be better off if we called a link that can deliver at best 17 Megabits of Goodput reliably a 15 Megabit goodput +5 service instead of calling it a 20 Megabit service But you don't know what the user is going to do over the link. If the average packet

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread keith tokash
2014 13:21:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? To: mysi...@gmail.com CC: bensjob...@gmail.com; ktok...@hotmail.com; nanog@nanog.org You can't just ignore protocol overhead (or any system's overhead). If an application requires X bits per second of actual payload, then your

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Joe Greco
You can't just ignore protocol overhead (or any system's overhead). If an application requires X bits per second of actual payload, then your system should be designed properly and take into account overhead, as well as failure rates, peak utilization hours, etc. This is valid for networking,

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Andrews
Useable data over a link depends on packet size. 56 byte IP packets at X Mbps 1500 byte IP packets at Y Mbps This is then comparable across link technologies and framings used on those technologies. You can then compare a DSL vs GPON vs Cable as provided by the ISP using Apples

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-30 Thread Rafael Possamai
Yes, and no. If you are a given a limited resource (in this case, a physical port that can process no more than 1gbps for example) and your efficiency in transferring data over that port is not 100%, the provider itself is not to blame. Each and every protocol has limitations, and in this case we

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
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

RE: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-29 Thread keith tokash
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: ktok...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Date

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-29 Thread Rafael Possamai
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: ktok...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-29 Thread Ben Sjoberg
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: ktok...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee? From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:02:53 -0400 CC: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Industry standard bandwidth guarantee?

2014-10-29 Thread Matthew Walster
On 30 October 2014 08:04, Ben Sjoberg bensjob...@gmail.com wrote: That 3Mb difference is probably just packet overhead + congestion control. Goodput on a single TCP flow is always less than link bandwidth, regardless of the link. ​I've always found it useful to refer to this: