[65501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worm Bandwidth [was Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Nov 29 15:56:53 2003
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:55:14 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311281821310.18182-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>What is the difference between a transit provider and an access provider,
>specially in the consumer space? Why is a transit provider expected to
>deliver the bits, but the access provider isn't? Since the bulk of
>Internet access is actually provided by wholesale providers (e.g.
>AOL/Earthlink buy wholesale modem access from UUNET/Level3), who is
>the access provider and who is the transit provider?
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Both of these identities can and do exist within the same ISP. Their
transit product would
not include active mitigation, notification and filtering but the access
provider part would.
Pete
