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Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?


From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:34:45 +0530


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)


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