Sorry, I misinterpreted what you wrote, your calculations are for an
average utilisation of 50%. That sounds plausible (obviously you have more
of an idea about your own traffic profiles than I do!).


On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:52:44 +1100, Andrew Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>>
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