Is this a new concept? I've never heard of this before. It's very interesting. Not that I personally have a need for it, but companies are always finding more "services" to provide for you....errr....manage for you.....
> From: rdobb...@arbor.net > To: nanog@nanog.org > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:35:29 +0000 > Subject: Re: Need some info about "Clean pipe" > > > 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 > > > >
