OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS

kveton writes "The OSL is pleased to announce that TDS Telecom has donated 600 Mbits of connectivity in order to ramp up their mirror infrastructure. The projects hosted at the OSL can now upload to the mirrors co-located in the TDS facilities in Chicago and Atlanta via their main data center in Corvallis, OR."

Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :)

[A beautiful mind]

You seem to have mistakenly assumed Gbit/s instead of Mbit/s!

600Mbit/s is not a huge thing to have.

Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Billed bandwidth rate is usually measured at the 95% percentile. That means that your carrier takes samples throughout the day of the current TX/RX rate, and throws away the highest 5%. The 95% highest sample is what you're billed for the month. This means you can briefly burst traffic, and be billed less than if you were billed at the highest (100%) rate.

So, 600mb/sec sustained (so that the 95% is 600) would work out to about 148TB. Even with 30% for headers, protocol overhead, etc, you're still talking ~100TB of data sent out (or into) the world.

Usual pricing for 1mb/sec is (in the San Jose area) between $200/$150 for low volume (1-5mb) customers. For those who buy many hundreds of mb, you can get a much better deal, certainly under 100$ a meg.

So, 600mb would cost about $600,000 a month, probably much less.

Re:Not wishing to sound conceited but...

[imsabbel]

What you dont consider is that this kind of bandwith exists only virually.
Yeah, you say thats you are the only on in your street using that fibre.
But how many in your town? How many in your district? use that service?
The total international interconnectivity of japan combined couldnt sustain even thousand of those kind of connections anyway. And while internal routing might be less tight, but the end result (when broadly available) will be the same as in hong-kong: your fancy ultra speed "internet" is nothing more than a fast intranet with undersized internet connection.

TDS are good people

[bofkentucky]

They donated a fast mirror to Sun Freeware [sunfreeware.com], which makes all of us Sun jockey's breathe a little easier.

Re:Not wishing to sound conceited but...

[jpmkm]

That doesn't mean your ISP has 1 gigabit/s of dedicated bandwidth in from/out to the internet just for you. Your bandwidth is still shared at some level. The 600megabits/s is not shared.

What is OSU OSL?

[kbahey]

I agree the summary should have more context ...

OSU OSL is Oregon State University Open Source Labs.

This is a project that manages infrastructure (machines, bandwidth) for many open source projects.

Their list of projects [osuosl.org] include Debian, Drupal, Gentoo, Mozilla and others ...

So, it is really good news, since the longevity of these projects are better (not that they were in danger or anything).

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