Contention Ratios: SA perspective

kaspaas

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What does a contention ratio exactly mean?

It could mean the amount of bandwidth available per user at the exchange, or at the transparent proxy, or at the international link.

Within South Africa I believe that ISP's should provide ate least two contention ratios:

Firstly the overall ratio (whatever it means) ant the second the "International contention ratio" which is easy to define.

Otherwise you could have a service provider promising a contention ratio of 50 to 1 and having an international ratio of 1000 to 1 ( my estimate for a certain Telkom product punishment)

I trust Sentech will provide both ratios. It will give a lot of additional credibility to their offerings.


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No you cant really provide a single contention ratio. Maybe only for international.

The local network is interconnected with various sizes of links and traffic is routed arround on BGP and other routing protocols.

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