Worm Bandwidth [was Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm]

Sat Nov 29 20:55:14 UTC 2003

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