[173217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDoS mitigation Equinix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Jul 20 15:02:39 2014
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:00:34 -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>
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> It was none of the mentioned , didn't wanna come off as advertising .. Gi=
genet is the company
>
ok, cool the OP probably is interested... thanks!
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>> Equinix doesn't provide Ddos protection , cloud flare is able to mitig=
ate 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 ha=
ve been using cdns for years to mitigate Ddos like akaimi , wasn't really p=
opular though because of how expensive cdns like Akamai were, btw they rece=
ntly bought prolexic. Cloud flare as far as I know does not sell Ddos prote=
ction service by any other means then there web proxy/cache service. Also t=
here 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,
>>
>> '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 reve=
rse proxy method. The difference between us , prolexic vs cloud flare is t=
he different delivery methods allow protection against attacks towards othe=
r services and protocols besides http protocol/websites, and protection aga=
inst entire networks versus an individual domain, it's just a different bus=
iness model going after different market segments.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Jul 19, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Abuse Contact <stopabuseandreport@gmail.c=
om> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've heard that using Equinix has it's DDoS protection benefits like l=
arge
>>>> 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.c=
om> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've heard that using Equinix has it's DDoS protection benefits like l=
arge
>>>> 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!
