Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Just what DOES it cost? Message-ID: <1300024@ccvaxa> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 10:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.1300024 Posted: Tue Nov 5 10:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:27:32 EST Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #N:ccvaxa:1300024:000:991 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Nov 5 09:49:00 1985 Much has been made lately of the amount of net traffic and the cost to backbone sites of maintaining the flow. Some very large figures have been reported (always as "I've heard that X's phone bill is ..."). Anybody willing to volunteer facts about the actual costs? I had always guessed that much of the backbone traffic went over long haul links established and maintained for other purposes and therefore had no marginal costs. Certainly there are plenty of Usenet sites that have access to leased lines, satellite links, microwave links, and whatever that have some excess capacity that net traffic could piggyback on. Does anyone know what the balance of trasmission methods is? How much longhaul traffic goes by telephone and how much by dedicated line? What does a backbone site actually pay, per month, for longhaul links? Anybody with hard data and a desire for anonymity may send data to me for summarization. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece