What is F5 Silverline™ DDoS Protection?
F5 Silverline is the cloud-based delivery platform. One of our services is Silverline DDoS Protection, which is a cloud-based DDoS mitigation system that protects customer's websites and data centers from DDoS attacks.
How can Silverline DDoS Protection help a customer under attack?
Within minutes the Silverline DDoS Protection service can be configured to protect a customer’s network. The attack will be stopped and the clean traffic from legitimate users will be passed on to the customer’s site.
How does Silverline DDoS Protection stop the attack?
Silverline DDoS Protection operates massive scrubbing centers with many times the capacity of even the largest known DDoS attacks. Inside the scrubbing centers exist entirely new technology built by the industry’s most experienced DDoS veterans. Silverline DDoS Protection utilizes high-performance systems, which filter the traffic directed at a customer's site for legitimate user data and passes the clean traffic on to the customer's servers. The illegitimate attack traffic never makes it out of the scrubbing center.
How long does it take for Silverline DDoS Protection to stop an attack?
The Silverline DDoS Protection service can begin mitigating an attack within minutes depending on the integration method selected by the customer. A Silverline DDoS Protection engineer will work with the customer to determine the best integration method and coach them through configuration as needed.
Why should a customer choose Silverline DDoS Protection to stop a DDoS attack?
Silverline DDoS Protection was created by the team that founded the DDoS mitigation industry. Since that time, new techniques have been developed and new technologies deployed which allow attacks to be mitigated faster and more affordably than with any other DDoS mitigation company. On a customer by customer basis, the Silverline DDoS Protection network is larger than any other in the world: More bandwidth, more mitigation capacity, more experienced DDoS fighting veterans, more technological innovation, and much faster stopping power.
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