It was none of the mentioned , didn't wanna come off as advertising .. Gigenet is the company
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 20, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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!