[c-nsp] Billing per Mb (Large ISPs)

[Eugeniu Patrascu]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

> On (2014-05-25 10:05 -0500), Blake Dunlap wrote:
>
> > The reason is because as an ISP, you generally have to build out for
> > peak, not average use, unless you're [maligned eyeball provider] and
> > just don't care.
>
> There are fairly regularly congestion in most ISPs, during single fault or
> during extraordinary events where demand is much more than normal demands.
>
> I'm not talking about dropping now and then, some content/eyeball links are
> congested every day until content agrees to pay to eyeball.
> I'd be curious to know, if this content/eyeball strategic congestion occurs
> for eyeballs who charge consumers by the byte.
>
>
Why should the content network pay the eyeball network?
First and foremost, the eyeballs which are the customers are paying the ISP
to give them access to the content. It's the ISP that should pay to
increase the bandwidth available between them and the content provider or
host some sort of CDN like for the video streaming from the content
provider, not the other way around.