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Is 400 Gbps globally really that much?

• NKCSS 13y ago
  Pointed to a single target: yes.
• isaack 13y ago
  It may not be a good idea to measure DDoS merely based on the volume. For example, a 100Gbps L7 attack is much harder to mitigate than a 100Gbps L3 attack. [1] Also, some had previously questioned the accuracy of CloudFlare's figures. [2] [1] https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/how-big-is-300-gbps-really.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/how-big-is-300-gbps-really.... [2] http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/prolexic-ceo-scott-hammack-biggest-cyber-attack-lies-spamhaus-113551 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/prolexic-ceo-scott-hamm...
• dsl 13y ago
  CloudFlare has 24 datacenters worldwide. That works out to 16 Gbps per DC if evenly distributed, or roughly 2 10 GigE circuits.
• Nyr 13y ago
  Obviously yes. Even for an anycast network like CloudFlare. Not that they can't mitigate it, but it's hard and not free to do so.