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Re: DDoS mitigation Equinix?


From: Ameen Pishdadi <apishdadi () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:54:49 -0500

It was none of the mentioned , didn't wanna come off as advertising .. Gigenet is the company 

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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 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,

'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 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!


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