Prolexic Routed
Fastest DDoS Mitigation of Terabit Scale Attacks
DDoS attacks range from small and sophisticated to large and bandwidth-busting
Prolexic Routed stops attacks with a cloud-based DDoS scrubbing platform to protect your applications wherever they are deployed, whether in your data center, the public cloud, or a colocation facility. It provides comprehensive protection against the broadest range of DDoS attack types and defends against high-bandwidth sustained attacks, as well as today’s complex multi-vector attacks that jump from application to application. Prolexic Routed includes proactive mitigation controls tailored to your network traffic to stop attacks instantly, backed by active mitigation performed by Akamai’s 24/7 global SOCC.
BENEFITS
- Reduce downtime and business risk with fast and effective mitigation of DDoS attacks backed by industryleading time-to-mitigate SLAs.
- Protect against the largest DDoS attacks with the globally distributed Prolexic network and 8 Tbps of dedicated network capacity.
- Respond to the most sophisticated attacks with Akamai’s dedicated and highly experienced SOCC staff.
- Reduce costs associated with DDoS protection by leveraging Akamai’s globally distributed cloud security platform.
HoW IT WOrks
Prolexic Routed is designed to stop DDoS attacks in the cloud, before they reach your applications, data centers, and infrastructure. Network traffic is redirected through Akamai scrubbing centers by making a simple border gateway protocol (BGP) route advertisement change. Akamai offers two deployment options ― always-on is ready to mitigate malicious traffic at all times, and on-demand allows you to redirect traffic when you’re under attack.
Prolexic Routed is built on a DDoS mitigation platform with 18 global scrubbing centers, closer to users and attackers to minimize performance latency and improve network resiliency. Traffic is routed through the closest available scrubbing center, and proactive mitigation controls are architected to drop attacks instantly. Akamai SOC experts analyze the remaining DDoS traffic to quickly and efficiently apply the most appropriate mitigation for every attack vector. Clean traffic is then forwarded to your applications and data centers, and outbound traffic returned directly to users.
Key Capabilities
- Broad DDoS attack protection — Prolexic Routed provides organizations with dynamic protection against a broad range of potential DDoS attack types, regardless of complexity, and even as they change over the course of an attack. This includes both network-layer DDoS attacks, such as UDP and SYN floods, as well as application-layer DDoS attacks, such as HTTP GET and POST floods.
- Protection for hundreds of applications — By routing network traffic through Prolexic Routed, organizations can protect entire IP subnets, including all web- and IP-based applications within those subnets, any supporting network and data center infrastructure. and the network bandwidth into their data center.
- Zero-second mitigation — Proactive mitigation controls tailored to your network traffic can lock down your attack surface to mitigate the majority of DDoS attacks instantly in zero seconds.
- Dedicated global network — Akamai’s Prolexic network includes 8 Tbps of dedicated network bandwidth and 19 globally distributed scrubbing centers, located in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ashburn (USA), Chicago (USA), Dallas (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong (China), London (UK), Los Angeles (USA), Melbourne (Australia), Miami (USA), New York (USA), Osaka (Japan), Paris (France), San Jose (USA), Singapore (Singapore), Stockholm (Sweden), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), and Vienna (Austria).
- 24/7 Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) — Akamai’s 24/7 SOCC provides global coverage for organizations around the world, with more than 185 SOCC staff operating across six SOCC locations. In addition to detecting and mitigating developing attacks, Akamai SOCC staff communicates and coordinates with organizations’ onsite staff and troubleshoots any abnormalities.
- Service-level agreement (SLA) — With trained security experts highly experienced at mitigating a broad range of DDoS attacks, Prolexic Routed reduces the business risk and financial cost through its industry-leading time-to-mitigate and consistency-of mitigation SLAs.
- Virtual tunnels — Proprietary GRE technology establishes many-to-one virtual tunnels from every scrubbing center to improve resiliency and reliability and support higher bandwidth for clean traffic.
- Flexible deployment options — Prolexic Routed is offered both as an always-on service, which offers the fastest detection and mitigation capabilities, or optionally as an On Demand service, to provide organizations with flexibility in how they customize and apply DDoS mitigation.
- DDoS monitoring (optional) — For on-demand customers, network traffic monitoring services provide early warning of potential attacks, allowing SOCC staff to route your traffic onto Akamai’s DDoS scrubbing platform and mitigate attacks faster.
- Virtual Leased Lines (optional) — The optional Connect module allows for Virtual Leased Lines between Akamai scrubbing centers and your data center for high bandwidth and predictable latency.
