On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ameen Pishdadi <apishd...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was none of the mentioned , didn't wanna come off as advertising .. > Gigenet 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.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!
