'Urro This is already done to some extent by Telecom with there 'PON' (private Office Network) and SBI (Secure business Internet) offering(s) for businesses.
It boils down to a leased firewall which lives in Telecom's 'Cloud'. It's quite price competitive with the option of running your own Firewall etc if you don't have your own IT staff. Even if you do have IT staff it's a 50-50 call, but fits well with the out-source mentality that a lot of businesses subscribe to. It doesn't fit well if you have complex hosting requirements though, for that there is 'CID' or Corporate Internet Direct, which is basically a fat pipe to the peering exchange level of the NZ Internet backbone with a range of fixed IP's assigned to it. Cheers, Me. > I can see ISPs in the future offering two kinds of service: > > Raw internet - everything open and the customer is > responsible for whatever traffic they generate. > > Very very filtered - customer behind an application level > gateway and paying not for internet, but for email, web, IM > or whatever.
