�I�m working for a service provider (Mothership) and we�re trying to differentiate between national and international traffic. Any pointers?
If we're to believe media reports*, bandwidth is so cheap these days that small providers like Orcon (at 5% of market share) are purchasing upwards of 400kbps/subscriber on SCC.
At what point does the overhead involved in differentiation and differential shaping/billing exceed the cost of just buying more capacity?
"Orcon have upgraded capacity. They had around 8Gbit/s of capacity, now they�ve upgraded that to
23Gbit/s," Mr Dotocm replied (Orcon later confirmed this Southern Cross Cable capacity upgrade. Asked
about shaping or throttling, spokesman Quentin Reade told NBR, "We have a fair use policy � but to date,
since we launched almost a year ago, we haven't kicked anyone off, or changed any service levels for
people. People regularly use more than 1TB a month; some use much more.")�