Cisco Distributed Denial of Service Protection Solution: Leading DDoS Protection for Service Providers and Their Customers

Overview

Today, service providers and their customers are exposed to a growing number of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can damage revenues and reputations. Therefore, service providers' offerings must include advanced security solutions. This paper explains the Cisco DDoS Protection solution, part of the IP Next Generation Network (NGN) from Cisco Systems. The Cisco DDoS Protection solution helps enable service providers to sell customers "clean pipes" connectivity services while at the same time hardening and protecting their own infrastructure to ensure resilient service delivery.