On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com> wrote: > I'm certain there are thresholds to that. Carrier grade mitigation > solutions will start low and ramp up to 5, 6, 7, etc. figures > depending on the attack and amount of bandwidth to be filtered among > other variables. > >>>> > > My point was, if you "mitigate" the attack vs. null routing the target you > have to pay for the transit that the attack consumes between your network and > the upstream network(s). >
so... with a carrier managed solution (or the one ATT/Sprint/VZB sold) the transit of the attack happens inside their networks and isn't charged to the end-customer (the destination, obviously contributing customers get charged :) ) -chris