Thursday 18 August 2011

Tiered pricing comes to the Internet backbone

Transit providers, which connect smaller ISPs into the Brobdingnagian network we call the "Internet," are moving away from a constant price-per-Mbps pipe.

Newer strategies bill by how far the data needs to be moved and by the level of demand.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/tiered-pricing-comes-to-the-internet-backbone.ars

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