I agree... Burstable pricing will kill you. think about it, 2.5 days of burst, can kill your 95%!!
You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely a very low quality provider. We had a contract with one "C" named provider for 1 year, and could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb.
I work for a small software company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utilizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs.
Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes. The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand.
Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need.
For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)).
Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything.
Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract.
If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net Good luck..
I agree... Burstable pricing will kill you. think about it, 2.5 days of burst, can kill your 95%!!
You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely is Cogent. We had a contract with them for 1 year, could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb.
I work for a small sooftware company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utlizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs.
Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes.
The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand.
Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need.
For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)).
Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything.
Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract.
If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net
Good luck..
did not want to be a coward!..
The reality is that this is not an Enterprise problem. This is a Carrier problem. We are all buying bandwidth from some one, why are we allowing all this crap to be put on our systems. The carriers should have been able to identify this worm as a majer increase in PORT 1433/1434 traffic, and then deal with it from on their edge/peer routers. If it can't get thru the door.. it can't hurt you.
Now I agree that MS is still the biggest problem here.. crappy code.. crappy security.. And we should definatly deal with making sure our systems are fully patched, but the other reality, is that once it hits the enterprise router.. its too late..
And for IDS and other inline devices... IDS still produce on the magnitude of 1000's alerts a day.. What are you going to look at first???
Signature based... I agree with the Netscreen dude.. pretty useless in a DDoS attack.
Inline - If you are being targeted.. whats the point.. your link is saturated. So you can ID.. who's problem is it really? The Carries/providers.
Here are some companies addressing this issue.
www.arbornetworks.com (network based carrier grade)
www.mazunetworks.com (Inline for enterprise)
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I agree... Burstable pricing will kill you. think about it, 2.5 days of burst, can kill your 95%!!
You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely a very low quality provider. We had a contract with one "C" named provider for 1 year, and could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb.
I work for a small software company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utilizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs.
Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes. The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand.
Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need.
For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)).
Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything.
Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract.
If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net Good luck..
I agree... Burstable pricing will kill you. think about it, 2.5 days of burst, can kill your 95%!! You should also be wary of the quality of the bw you are getting. If its cheap, it most likely is Cogent. We had a contract with them for 1 year, could not use it, because some of our customers are VOIP providers, and the latency would spike @ 10Mb. I work for a small sooftware company, and all we are about it Bandwidth pricing and trading. We liscecne our market technology to other large Carriers, as well as run our colo business, that utlizes our own technology, to maximize customers needs. Invisible Hand Networks (IHN), developed an IP pricing and provisioning platform called Merkato, at Columbia University. Currently, we operate and participate in multiple global markets. We also operate a service business, (Invisible Hand Services, formerly StreamingHand) based on this technology, that provides "on demand" IP capacity for content delivery purposes. The service allows our customers to purchase bandwidth as needed in as little as five minute increments or as long as they need. These customers simply configure an intelligent software "agent" which then purchases bandwidth on the customer's behalf in response to real-time traffic monitoring for real demand. Because of the efficiencies realized under this model, cost savings for the customer are significant. For instance, the price per Mbps of bandwidth has averaged approximately $125.00 per Mbps per Month in recent months. And because it is purchased in 5 minute increments it mimics a megabyte delivered model where the customer is only really paying for what they need. For Example: a customer hosting a game demo or streaming media file would configure the agent to respond to demand for these objects. If the traffic were to pick up to 70 Mbps for 2 hours they would pay $23.52 ($125.00*70Mbps/31days/24hours *2 hours)). Because of the "Free Market" nature of our technology, we do not utilize term contracts or monthly cost minimums. In short, if you don't use the bandwidth, then you don't pay anything. Customers in your line of business, usually start out by hosting your burstable traffic with us and allowing the system to buy your optimal bandwidth corresponding to your demand, not your contract. If you want to pay for only what you use, then check us out: www.invisiblehand.net or you contact us at sales@invisiblehand.net Good luck..
did not want to be a coward!.. The reality is that this is not an Enterprise problem. This is a Carrier problem. We are all buying bandwidth from some one, why are we allowing all this crap to be put on our systems. The carriers should have been able to identify this worm as a majer increase in PORT 1433/1434 traffic, and then deal with it from on their edge/peer routers. If it can't get thru the door.. it can't hurt you. Now I agree that MS is still the biggest problem here.. crappy code.. crappy security.. And we should definatly deal with making sure our systems are fully patched, but the other reality, is that once it hits the enterprise router.. its too late.. And for IDS and other inline devices... IDS still produce on the magnitude of 1000's alerts a day.. What are you going to look at first??? Signature based... I agree with the Netscreen dude.. pretty useless in a DDoS attack. Inline - If you are being targeted.. whats the point.. your link is saturated. So you can ID.. who's problem is it really? The Carries/providers. Here are some companies addressing this issue. www.arbornetworks.com (network based carrier grade) www.mazunetworks.com (Inline for enterprise)