[173215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDoS mitigation Equinix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Jul 20 14:51:45 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <0C724A56-37FA-48DD-B4AD-E2FD3B96D6EF@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:51:36 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Abuse Contact <stopabuseandreport@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Equinix doesn't provide Ddos protection , cloud flare is able to mitigat=
e attacks by spreading out the traffic across 20-30 different pops which ar=
e 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 pop=
ular though because of how expensive cdns like Akamai were, btw they recent=
ly bought prolexic. Cloud flare as far as I know does not sell Ddos protect=
ion service by any other means then there web proxy/cache service. Also the=
re core business isn't Ddos protection it's website optimization via cdn ty=
pe setup.
>
> Our company also uses Equinix and other carrier hotels to provide Ddos pr=
otection,
'our company' .. since use used 3 different names of companies in the
previous part of the message, which one is 'our' ?
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 revers=
e 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 again=
st entire networks versus an individual domain, it's just a different busin=
ess model going after different market segments.
>
>
>
> 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 lar=
ge
>> companies such as CloudFlare use them for DDoS mitigation, I don't get i=
t,
>> how do they help with DDoS protection? You still get a 1Gbit from them o=
r
>> 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 lar=
ge
>> companies such as CloudFlare use them for DDoS mitigation, I don't get i=
t,
>> how do they help with DDoS protection? You still get a 1Gbit from them o=
r
>> whatever and also do you guys know around how much they'd cost?
>>
>> Thanks!
