AKAMAI PROLEXIC AND EQUINIX CLOUD EXCHANGE UNITE, BRINGING DDOS DEFENSE CLOSER TO THE CUSTOMER ORIGIN
Akamai Blogs – Greg Burns
Akamai has expanded accessibility to the Prolexic platform via Equinix, a global leader in data center and Layer 2 cloud fabric connectivity, to launch Akamai Prolexic Connect via Equinix Cloud Exchange, complementing our existing GRE and Connect offerings. The Equinix partnership could not have been better timed to meet market demands and the acceleration of digital transformation due to COVID-19. As a result, many organizations needed to quickly rethink growth and bandwidth usage models driven by the surge in remote workers as the world shifted to an all-digital reality. The ability for Akamai to provide added resilience, diversity, and virtually unlimited throughput via Prolexic Connect — backed by our 100% availability SLA — has met the needs of customers challenged by the times. Using Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric) software-defined interconnection, Akamai Prolexic offers direct and secure private connectivity to its cloud-based DDoS solution for its customers. Prolexic stops attacks with a scalable, cloud-based DDoS scrubbing platform to protect entire customer networks, including all of their enterprise applications, whether they are deployed in an on-premises data center, the public cloud, or a colocation facility such as Equinix.

The Prolexic Routed solution leverages the Border Gateway Protocol to route all network traffic through Akamai’s globally distributed scrubbing centers. Within each scrubbing center, proactive mitigation controls remove all abnormal traffic instantly, while Akamai Security Operations Control Center staff inspects the remaining traffic, mitigates any and all detected attacks, and forwards only clean traffic to the application origin via ECX Fabric.
Link: https://blogs.akamai.com/2020/12/akamai-prolexic-and-equinix-cloud-exchange-unite-bringing-ddos-defense-closer-to-the-customer-origin.html