On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Michael Holstein wrote: > In short, instead of paying for a (n*)gbps circuit and buying your own DDOS > prevention gear, you buy $n worth of bandwidth that has somebody actively > managing the DDOS protection.
And of course, if one's organization is an SP, one can in fact offer this type of service commercially to one's transit/hosting/co-location/ASP/cloud/etc. customers. ;> Responding to the original poster's question about latency, if the service architecture is well-defined and takes backhaul-induced latency into account as part of the design/topological service coverage, latency experienced by the end-customer is typically minimal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken
