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The Importance of Inbound Rate Limiting

Overview This paper discusses Rate Limiting in general and Inbound vs. Outbound Rate Limiting in particular. The differences between the two are discussed along with certain advantages of Inbound Rate Limiting. In addition, general specifications of a Riverstone solution that was presented to a customer to solve real issues are shown as a concrete example of a real world implementation of Inbound Rate Limiting in a competitive business environment.

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Publisher	RiverStone Networks	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	December 2001	Downloads	19
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues

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VoIP
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security,
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Publisher:
ZDNet UK

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ntl:Telewest Business

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Publisher:
IBM

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Publisher:
IBM

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