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Why isn’t there a “premium” commercial Internet, similar to DOD NIPRnet, for b2b stuff and for communications to vetted infrastructure? A random business on the
by rdl 8y ago
Why isn’t there a “premium” commercial Internet, similar to DOD NIPRnet, for b2b stuff and for communications to vetted infrastructure? A random business on the Internet (eyeball, not servers) cares a lot more about routes to AWS and Google than to a bunch of other eyeballs, particularly in foreign countries.
You would still want full connectivity, but when things went wrong I could lose connectivity to a Nigerian ISP without critical business risk, but losing access to Google sucks. You could largely accomplish this by prefixing the hell out of everything except the “special” connection, and ensuring DDoS and other security filtering could drop the entire normal network if needed without affecting internal or special.
- basilgohar 8y agoIf the extremely slippery slope of this idea is not immediately obvious to you, then I don't even know what to say. As succinctly as I can put it, this is exactly the opposite sentiment of Net Neutrality.
- kbirkeland 8y agoInternet2 basically provides this service for US research organizations.
- andrewflnr 8y agoWith two completely separate networks, the concept of net neutrality doesn't even apply.
- krallja 8y agoYou can purchase things like AWS Direct Connect.
- rdl 8y agoOnly really at colos. What scares me is businesses with key business partners, satellite offices, etc who just rely on the Internet working normally to communicate between them. If someone like L3 sold a premium network it would be worthwhile.
- unethical_ban 8y agoIsn't that MPLS, essentially?
- rdl 8y agoYeah, you could accomplish this for hq to satellite office over private circuits, MPLS, etc. That wouldn’t be enabled by default. If a carrier made a point of on-net connections being protected by default, it would probably be easier for more businesses to adopt.