On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ameen Pishdadi <apishd...@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. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 19, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Abuse Contact <stopabuseandrep...@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 <stopabuseandrep...@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!
