[90002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Apr 18 13:05:13 2006
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:34:45 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060418004437.02158970@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/18/06, Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com> wrote:
>
> Vendors like it because it's a revenue boost. It obviously requires build=
-ahead
> capacity and maintenance of overload capacity that will likely sit
> idle for 99%
> of it's life span. Who pays?
>
> [ ..hears ISP product managers scurrying to create "PriortyVPN" or
> "priority vpn" products as a result... heh -> implied trademark here]
>
Probably sell them a product where b/w is burstable to a much higher
level - at least for short periods of time, to deal with sudden use
spikes (or to create extra capacity for those periodic trojan
outbreaks that will otherwise simply max their pipe out)
