> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:59:55PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: >> of course, you should never underestimate the role of value added >> telco service providers like ISPs. bank maybe transfering a huge amout >> of data but that is plaintext data. ISPs have to contend with a whole >> lot of other types of data such as multimedia and others. > > > ah but telcos and ISP's toss their data in and out routers and > switches, and hardly get "elevated" to the servers... unlike in the > bank where the mainframe has to LOOK at the data :) > you have a good point.
however, ISPs do not just toss the data around. other even provide value added services since as on the fly virii scanning and packet filtering that also take a great deal of resources. ISPs with data centers deal (filter, route and scan) with more data than even citibank COSMOS. -- William Emmanuel S. Yu Systems Administrator on Leave _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
