Carrier clouds and the business customers that they serve need protection from ever escalating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and other malicious attacks.
It’s a fact. The frequency, sophistication and scale of malicious attacks is ever growing. Service provider networks and businesses’ mission critical applications are more at risk than ever before, and we are all losing the arms race against increasingly savvy attackers and large-scale attacks. How do we stem the tide, securing and protecting the infrastructure vital to building cloud based services?
Is cloud based DDoS protection the answer?
Alcatel-Lucent research shows that Enterprises view carrier clouds as an ideal location for detecting and eliminating attacks before they compromise businesses’ applications. By combining the computing power and flexibility of the cloud with the high performance, reliability and security of communications networks, service providers are best positioned to protect carrier clouds from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), attacks, malware and other vulnerabilities. In addition, detecting and terminating DDoS attacks at the edge of the cloud is an effective way to minimize transit costs of attack traffic.
Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks have teamed up to deliver a true carrier-grade DDoS protection solution. The new solution integrates Arbor Networks’ Threat Management in Alcatel-Lucent’s service router platform, allowing service providers to better serve their customers with cloud-based protection from DDoS attacks, and delivering on the promise of cloud.
With the Arbor Networks Peakflow TMS ported on to the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR, the Alcatel-Lucent TMS enables service providers to leverage their expertise in identifying and mitigating DDoS attacks in the carrier cloud. It protects their networks and enterprise services from a wide range of threats, including:
Service providers can also use the solution at the peering edge and other locations to protect their data centers, Residential and High Speed IPTV infrastructure and mobile/wireless infrastructure.
The Alcatel-Lucent DDoS protection solution enables service providers to offer a more attractive secure cloud environment for mission critical applications.
As a service offering to its business customers, it safeguards an enterprise’s reputation, reduces downtime and decreases enterprise IT and network security costs.
By delivering a cloud-based DDoS protection capability, service providers transform their role from connectivity provider to trusted Information and Communications Technology (ICT) partner.
This network-based approach to carrier cloud security enables greater scale, lower costs and simplified operations.
With over 60 Gb/s of integrated traffic scrubbing capability per router, the solution increases scalability and reliability without the complexity and cost associated with overlay solutions.
The integrated DDoS protection solution adapts to full range of centralized, distributed or mixed deployment architectures.
