Unless Novus has a dedicated gigabit Tier 1 peering connection for every 5 customers, this is the typical oversubscription model and not worth a hill of beans.
It's a nice idea and great for geek bragging rights, but remember it's all shared bandwidth somewhere along the line, and that somewhere is 3 hops away at the edge of the Novus infrastructure.
reply to jester121 You *can* oversubscribe, and you can do it more as connection speeds go higher on the backbone and on the subscriber side. I'll bet Novus could fit their entire customer base onto a 10G link without a problem.
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