Section 20 in The Quality Of Service Of Broadband Service Regulations, 2006
20. In the consultation paper under the proposed benchmark Bandwidth utilization/ throughput, it was proposed that "the bandwidth utilization between the user and the nearest serving ISP node during download shall not be less than 70% of the subscribed level-for 95% of the time". Views of stakeholders are different such as:
(i)proposed benchmark can be committed and achieved between the user and nearest ISP Node;(ii)the dependency of link utilization on the availability of the content/application to be supplied from the other end is one of the factors to be considered here and dependency is on the other end server, far end ISP link and far end ISP's upstream connectivity;(iii)beyond POP there is always a sharing of bandwidth and the effective throughput at any instant depends on the contention which increases manifold in the International domain;(iv)it is not possible to measure throughput as a historic measure; (v) it is not possible to establish that the traffic as less than 70% due to non-usage of the circuit, or less usage;(vi)any measurement has to be on current basis; and(vii)bandwidth can be effectively measured by a down-loaded server dedicated for this purpose.
