Re: Need some info about "Clean pipe"

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

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.

;>

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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