 DaneJasperSonic.NetPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
kudos:7 | reply to djrobx
Re: Great Deal -- Beats $100 for same thing from S It's a combination of two items. The first is that, as you point out, most folks don't consume more just because they have more. They get done faster whatever they were planning to do, but generally consume a fraction more bandwidth.
The average DSL customer on our network today uses about 1% of the bandwidth of their link. If this were to double with 6.0Mbps customers, that would still be a small amount of bandwidth.
The other factor is that inbound bandwidth has gotten really cheap to pick up at big transit facilities. Through our interconnections at various facilities in the Bay Area, we can get inbound megabits for silly cheap prices. Of course, we've still got to have an appropriately sized ATM uplink, and keep that from filling up, so there's some management to be done there.
Also note that SBC-ASI ATM OC-3 circuits are limited to 6000 PVCs - but with 6000 typical DSL customers on the link, we're finding that the bandwidth of the OC-3 (which should be 155Mbps, but is really 120Mbps after all the ATM overhead) generally gets utilized at less than 75%, even at peak!
The combination of these factors along with introductory promotional loop pricing from SBC-ASI is allowing us to get down to these new prices.
Hope that helps!
-Dane |
