People commit to a certain bandwidth per month, and we charge them a monthly recurring fee. That's pretty much industry standard. Akamai has postponed the need to bring up another data center right now. You'll also pay a premium based on bandwidth delivered by the ReadyCache service. Prices for Cisco's products vary widely.
Cisco also has content routers, engines and switches.
For Adero customer Earthwatch, an international nonprofit organization that promotes conservation through partnerships among scientists and the public, the proof is in the pudding. For a nonprofit, this was like gold dust. We've gone from 46 seconds to load a page to 2.6 seconds. This revolutionizes the way people use our site. In the past, our volunteers had to really love us to wait for the information.