Get rid of DDoS traffic effectively

To help our customers mitigate the effects of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against their networks, we offer customer-triggered blackholing. Blackholing allows network operators to signal a blackhole by using the BGP BLACKHOLE community.

Malicious traffic is dropped

When you detect a DDoS attack against your network, you can announce the affected prefixes as Blackholes by using the BGP BLACKHOLE community.

As a result, all the traffic flowing to the victim will instead be dropped on the AF-CIX platform, so that your resources are protected against the increased loads caused by the attack. The blackholed traffic will never reach your access.

What's more, you can apply specific communities (policy control) to signal blackholed routes only to a subset of peers.