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Akamai Technologies Metric

95/5

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Unit
Mbps (95th percentile)
Aliases
95th percentile; burstable billing
Definition
Billing Terms Appendix B: "The billing and measurement methodology shorthand describing a process of determining the 95th percentile of usage or the uncompressed equivalent as measured by Akamai over five minute intervals."
Counting rules
Applies to Services billed in concurrent users, GB stored, Mbps, Gbps or any other bit per second methodology, unless the Transaction Document says otherwise. Akamai may measure 95/5 per region where usage exceeds 20 Mbps. Usage above two times the commitment in the top 5% of five-minute intervals attracts a Superbursting charge.
Floors / minimums
Commitment set in the Transaction Document; no published floor.
Applies to products
  • Akamai delivery services
  • NetStorage (GB stored)
  • Prolexic (Committed Information Rate)
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