Those calculations assume 100% link utilisation all the time, which is likely far from true. Your actual cost/MB will probably be significantly higher, even at the NOC.
-Jonesy On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:06:35 -0600, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying to calculate bandwidth costs. > > 1Mbps / 8 bits = 125,000 bytes a second. > > 125,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 30 = 324GBytes a month. > > This is just download we are looking at but since that is the majority > of traffic and TDD/GPS Sync is often optimized for download we will > just look at that and add download and upload on the user since upload > likely hurts our AP's worse. > > Looking at my bandwidth graphs 50 percent of time is sorta off peak so: > > 324GBytes / 2 = 162GBytes. > > So say your cost per Meg is $100 > > $100 / 162 = $0.62 per gigabyte transferred. > > I realize this is just at your NOC but does this sound realistic? > > So a Media Streamer doing 200 Gigs a month costs $124in NOC bandwidth > alone. Then you have last mile costs. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
