[ILUG] RE: Esat-X Hosting Services

[Mark Cawley]

Niall,
Our standard service is a 10/100Mbit/s ethernet port.  The minimum
commitment you give us is a contractual concern.  Firstly our service has
ZERO contention for commited bandwidth meaning the amount of upstream IP we
have available in the data centre wil at all times equal at least 125% of
the sum of our customers commited bandwidth.  Secondly the minimum
commitment you give us defines the rate per Mb you pay for your IP.  We
charge on 95th percentile usage, we take samples of usage every five minutes
and at the end of the month discard the top five percent of samples.  We
then compare the 95th percentile usage with the minimum commitment and
charge which ever is higher.  We do not use rate limiting or any similar
technique on the ports, therfore if you ship us traffic over your min.
comit. we will ship it and charge you for it...

I trust this addresses your questions...

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Niall O Broin [mailto:niall at linux.ie]
Sent: 06 April 2001 00:29
To: Mark Cawley
Subject: Re: Esat-X Hosting Services


Mark,
     Thanks for the detailed description of Esat-X services which you gave
me today. I have one further question which came up in a discussion this
evening with a colleague concerning a prospect of ours who would be a
relativey heavy bandwidth user ? If we purchase X Mbits to our rack, is that
a maximum capacity or a CIR (probably the wrong TLA in this context, but I
presume you know what I mean i.e. is 1 Mbit/s a max. rate or does it burst
?)

AFAIR SoftCo talked about having 2M bursting to 10M into their rack - is
that your standard service ?




Regards,



Niall  O Broin


**********************************************************************
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
the system manager.

http://www.esatbusiness.com

**********************************************************************