Bursting Bandwidth Traffic samples are taken every five minutes, seven days a week. If your total bandwidth used exceeds your purchased bandwidth level, you will be locked to your purchased rate for 7 days, or until your base bandwidth is upgraded. Monitoring of the burstable to T1s will be integrated into a weekly email that will look something like this. This burstable to T1 connection is like a post office. With the burstable to T1, the post office can send out lots of packages, but it is against regulations to send out a certain amount in a set period of time.
Monitors watch the post office to make sure they stay at or below their allocated throughput.
If the post office goes over, they have to pay for that privilege. Note, this is a monitored service and not restricted. This means that clients will not be prevented from going over their purchased increment. The amount of weekly traffic that dedicated accounts can handle is outlined below. Traffic monitoring runs from Sunday to Sunday.