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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem is even 10 gbit will not get you far it is arms
race for capacity which you cannot win, perfect example is this 90 gbit attack.<br>
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<a href="http://www.micron21.com/90gbit-ddos.php">http://www.micron21.com/90gbit-ddos.php</a></p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Nick Evendor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickevendor@outlook.com" target="_blank">nickevendor@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Yesterday we experienced an 850 megabit DDoS attack towards a hosting customer which almost filled our gigabit uplink and made our upstream provider call me on a Sunday due to abnormal traffic on our port.<br><br>Thank god it was Sunday so our network was underutilized with no collateral damage and everything remained working, but I asked the upstream provider what we can do about it other than null routing the destination and they said purchase more capacity.<br><br>In the past we have seen a few attacks but they have only been a few hundred megabits and never come close to saturating our gigabit uplink.<br><br>What size attacks are people seeing and is it time to over purchase bandwidth and move to a ten gigabit service.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Nick<br><br> </font></span></div></div>
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