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: rdobbins@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.
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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.
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