Need some info about "Clean pipe"

Brandon Kim brandon.kim at brandontek.com
Mon Mar 15 18:58:32 UTC 2010


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 at arbor.net
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:35:29 +0000
> Subject: Re: Need some info about "Clean pipe"
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> On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Michael Holstein wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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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> ;>
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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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