Re: DDoS mitigation Equinix?

[Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi () gmail com>]

Equinix doesn't provide Ddos protection ,  cloud flare is able to mitigate attacks by spreading out the traffic across 
20-30 different pops which are mostly located at Equinix. Cloud flare is pretty much a cdn , people have been using 
cdns for years to mitigate Ddos like akaimi , wasn't really popular though because of how expensive cdns like Akamai 
were, btw they recently bought prolexic. Cloud flare as far as I know does not sell Ddos protection service by any 
other means then there web proxy/cache service. Also there core business isn't Ddos protection it's website 
optimization via cdn type setup.

Our company also uses Equinix and other carrier hotels to provide Ddos protection, we provide a connection to our 
network by cross connects or peering exchanges , 1 gig or 10 gig and filter the Ddos before it leaves our network, this 
can be on full time or only when an attack is detected. 
Other methods of filtered traffic delivery are gre VPN tunnels and reverse proxy method. The difference between us  , 
prolexic vs cloud flare is the different delivery methods allow protection against attacks towards other services and 
protocols besides http protocol/websites, and protection against entire networks versus an individual domain, it's just 
a different business model going after different market segments. 



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> On Jul 19, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Abuse Contact <stopabuseandreport () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've heard that using Equinix has it's DDoS protection benefits like large
> companies such as CloudFlare use them for DDoS mitigation, I don't get it,
> how do they help with DDoS protection? You still get a 1Gbit from them or
> whatever and also do you guys know around how much they'd cost?
>
> Thanks!

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> On Jul 19, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Abuse Contact <stopabuseandreport () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've heard that using Equinix has it's DDoS protection benefits like large
> companies such as CloudFlare use them for DDoS mitigation, I don't get it,
> how do they help with DDoS protection? You still get a 1Gbit from them or
> whatever and also do you guys know around how much they'd cost?
>
> Thanks!