Re: DDoS mitigation Equinix?

["Paul S." <contact () winterei se>]

CF is willing to offer network drops over GRE / XCs too and filter 
everything apparently if the price is right.

It is a custom service, though.

On 7/20/2014 午後 11:32, Ameen Pishdadi wrote:
> 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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> Sent from my iPhone
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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!
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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!