[123766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need some info about "Clean pipe"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Mar 15 14:36:09 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:35:29 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4B9E773B.4060006@csuohio.edu>
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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 DD=
OS prevention gear, you buy $n worth of bandwidth that has somebody activel=
y managing the DDOS protection.
And of course, if one's organization is an SP, one can in fact offer this t=
ype 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 accoun=
t as part of the design/topological service coverage, latency experienced b=
y the end-customer is typically minimal.
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