> It's impressive, but I can't see its application. DDoS. Packets Per Second attacks which you cannot filter on the edge in hardware (e.g. routers) can be qui

> It's impressive, but I can't see its application. DDoS. Packets Per Second attacks which you cannot filter on the edge in hardware (e.g. routers) can be quite difficult to handle in some exceptional cases. Being able to process line-rate pps is a pretty nice thing to have. Thankfully you can usually filter these out upstream, but it's nice to have the spare capacity to absorb traffic while you figure out exactly what you need to filter. Plus you (generally) will never be able to get a filter 100% accurate, and will usually be letting some percentage of an attack through to hit your webservers. For some sites, these attacks can be in the hundreds of gigabits per second range - even 10% of that getting through can be significant.