DYN had an infamous outage recently due to a massive DDoS attack. Two clients also experienced DDoS attacks on their ISP networks this year. One had multiple incidents.

Level3 and XO offer DDoS Mitigation services. So do a number of data center providers like Cologix.

How does mitigation work? First, by monitoring traffic. In their most simple form, DDoS mitigation tools are remote network traffic filters that prevent undesired traffic from hitting your network/servers. Basically traffic is sent to a black hole. Good traffic is filtered to the network or servers. The black hole needs to have a lot of capacity – and that is where much of the expense is.

If you need DDoS Mitigation (or other security services) give RAD-INFO Inc a call at 813-963-5884.
We work with Level3, XO, Cologix and a host of data center providers and carriers.

Other Resources:

• An interesting read about it from Cloudflare.
• Basic DDoS info
• Cisco has a white paper on it HERE.

In this article AT&T CEO whines about investment without regulatory relief. That means opportunity for anyone willing to build and take business away from Ma Bell. It is this thought process that has resulted in cable taking most broadband and triple-play bundles from the telco. It is why analysts are calling cable the incumbent phone company in 2017.

“AT&T’s third quarter strategic business services growth was offset by the decline in legacy services. Legacy data services declined 15.8% year-over-year to $1.8 billion, while legacy voice and other services declined 6.2% year-over-year to $3.2 billion.”

They bought DirecTV for the content savings and the subscriber revenue which has been declining since the merger was completed. Now spending on OTT video, which had an outage in week 2.

Also, DTV was a pipeline to LATAM (Latin America) as most service providers look outside the US for growth.  Zayo, Jive, Birch and others have all made purchases in Canada. 8×8 has opened in Japan and UK. I guess it was too much work to eke out organic growth here at home.

Consolidated is buying Fairpoint, which is a combo of 2 RLECs that will have 80% of its revenue in legacy services.  Windstream and CenturyLink are heavy in legacy, so is Frontier. I guess you either focus on legacy and own it – or you don’t so you lose.

“Not having a goal to work toward makes it difficult to direct your efforts, measure progress and motivate yourself to keep going. Write your goals down—and be specific.” – Jim Rohn

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“Not having a goal to work toward makes it difficult to direct your efforts, measure progress and motivate yourself to keep going. Write your goals down—and be specific.” – Jim Rohn

“Personal goals start as thoughts and dreams. Business goals may have those attributes, but often business goals are handed to you by a superior. Sales goals, sales plans, sales numbers, pipelines, funnels, and various benchmarks for you to achieve for THEM.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

It is December, the time of year for reflecting on the year closing up and planning for the year coming soon. Let’s get a jump on that with some Goal Setting help in this 45 minute webinar on December 14 at Noon Eastern.

REGISTER NOW!