Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

Tue Apr 18 03:58:48 UTC 2006

At 09:50 PM 4/17/2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>How about this idea... are your corporate VPN services (assuming there is
>one aside fromm 'ssh to the bastion host' of course) prepared to
>double/quadruple/more-uple their normal concurrent user counts? During the
>fallout of Katrina we observed this being a problem for some of the
>corporations in region :( I know that quite a few folks plan for 50% or
>less of their employees to be 'dialed in' :( If 100%, or some majority,
>how do the corp folks plan on supporting that? :(

I don't know about the rest of the country, but in the northeast, 
there are MANY days during the winter when only a couple of people 
can make it to our office and a number of our clients have the same 
situation. On those days at Tellurian, everyone who can't make it in 
works from home. It is completely transparent to our clients. People 
in NJ may understand if we have a blizzard, but our clients in CA 
don't care and expect the same level of service. As an ISP/ASP, we 
have the bandwidth, phone lines, and VPN concentrator capacity 
available for our own use, but what about your clients who may only 
use their connection for email and web access and a few road warriors 
and sales folks normally. Perhaps 200-300 people can share a T1 with 
light to moderate use in one office, but with 200+ people connecting 
back in via VPN, a T1 isn't going to cut it. Scale up or down DSL to 
OC3 based on the client. I don't think it is something people design 
for and I know it isn't something most clients will pay for until 
they need it and don't have it. Then they will want more bandwidth 
installed immediately.

-Robert

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