Saturday, April 4, 2009

First Media | FastNet : Over-Booking Ratio

Recently, Dicky Moechtar, director of PT First Media, said that the company has totally 3.5 Gbps bandwidth serving 122 th. customers. He also claimed that FastNet allows users to have external download rate 18 kBps (average I guess), which is according to him, three times faster than the usual external download rate offered by other operators.

If we take the numbers given by Dicky, then it seems that FastNet using an over-booking figure of around 1:5 (corresponds to 'simultaneous factor' of 0.2 for accessing service at the highest allowable rate - note: this is for external traffic!)

However, FastNet has currently also offers services based on rates! It could happen that they set better overbooking ratio for premium customers. However, for current situations, it seems that operators just play with "rates" which affects internal traffic only.

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