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

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Sat Nov 29 15:58:47 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?



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