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Turbocharged DDoS Mitigation: Ovum Reports on Neustar's Partnership with Limelight Networks
Neustar,
Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information
services, today released details of a new report by leading business
intelligence provider, Ovum. The report highlights that Neustar's recent
partnership with Limelight Networks (News - Alert) will dramatically increase the size
and capacity of infrastructure used to power Neustar's DDoS protection
service, growing from 1.2Tbps to 10Tbps across 27 global locations.
Written by Ovum (News - Alert) senior analyst Rik Turner and titled, "Neustar forms
partnership with Limelight for turbocharged DDoS mitigation," the report
also emphasizes that the DDoS protection service will provide customers
with a powerful combination of high performance and high capacity
scrubbing during DDoS attacks. The large number of points of presence
(PoPs) will reduce business operations risks while increasing the speed
to normal operating states. These PoPs will act as in-region mitigation
centers allowing Neustar to redirect traffic to local scrubbing centers
at the edge of the network, closer to the source rather than having to
be backhauled to a regional scrubbing center that may be halfway around
the world.
"With this partnership, Neustar is responding to the growth in the
average size of DDoS attacks, and in particular the emergence of the
gigantic volumetric attacks that we have seen in recent years, which
have put pressure on traditional DDoS mitigation infrastructure,"
commented Turner. "With Limelight, Neustar now has the capacity to
address these monster attacks without adding significant latency to
customers' traffic in the process."
In addition, the report draws attention to the fact that, unlike other
DDoS services that typically mitigate in a two-step process relying on
network routers to perform an initial filter, the Neustar DDoS
mitigation service powered by Limelight, once activated, scrubs all
incoming traffic. Turner reports that Neustar and Limelight champion
this approach because it releases the routers to do what they are
primarily designed to do, directing traffic quickly, without incurring
traditional performance risks by overburdening them with filtering.
"Neustar is committed to ensuring the security of internet traffic
around the world and the Ovum report is a strong endorsement of our
capability to deliver on this promise," said Rodney Joffe (News - Alert), Head of
Naional Security Services for Neustar. "Ovum recognizes that the global
scale and stability of the Limelight platform, combined with Neustar's
leading SiteProtect DDoS solution, will allow Neustar to operate as an
integrated and distributed DDoS mitigation network able to outpace
attackers by absorbing attacks close to the source."
The Ovum report can be downloaded here: Neustar
forms partnership with Limelight for turbocharged DDoS mitigation.
About Neustar
Every day, the world generates roughly 2.5 quadrillion bits of data.
Neustar (NYSE: NSR) isolates certain elements and analyzes, simplifies
and edits them to make precise and valuable decisions that drive
results. As one of the few companies capable of knowing with certainty
who is on the other end of every interaction, we're trusted by the
world's great brands to make critical decisions some 20 billion times a
day. We help marketers send timely and relevant messages to the right
people. Because we can authoritatively tell a client exactly who is
calling or connecting with them, we make critical realtime responses
possible. And the same comprehensive information that enables our
clients to direct and manage orders also stops attackers. We know when
someone isn't who they claim to be, which helps stop fraud and denial of
service before they're a problem. Because we're also an experienced
manager of some of the world's most complex databases, we help clients
control their online identity, registering and protecting their domain
name, and routing traffic to the correct network address. By linking the
most essential information with the people who depend on it, we provide
more than 12,000 clients worldwide with decisions-not just data. More
information is available at http://www.neustar.biz
About Limelight Networks
Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), a global leader in digital content
delivery, empowers customers to better engage online audiences by
enabling them to securely manage and globally deliver digital content,
on any device. The company's award winning Limelight Orchestrate™
platform includes an integrated suite of content delivery technology and
services that helps organizations secure digital content, deliver
exceptional multi-screen experiences, improve brand awareness, drive
revenue, and enhance customer relationships - all while reducing costs.
For more information, please visit www.limelight.com,
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Connect.
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