NL-ix DDoS Protection
Transform your network into a 'self-defending network'
Are you ready for DDoS Protection from NL-ix?
DDoS attacks are growing in size, frequency, and sophistication, threatening business continuity like never before. NL-ix offers fast, reliable, and privacy-focused DDoS protection without relying on external scrubbing centers, ensuring your network stays secure, compliant, and high-performing.
Powered by Nokia Deepfield Defender, NL-ix DDoS Protection transforms the NL-ix network into a “self-defending network”, detecting and mitigating threats in real time.
Additionally, traffic insights and attack visibility are available through ICON, providing customers with full transparency over their network security.
Why Choose NL-ix DDoS Protection?
✔ Always-on attack detection & response – Worry-free protection as threats are identified and mitigated before they can impact your business
✔ Privacy-focused - DDoS protection without relying on (foreign) third-party scrubbing centers
✔ Integrated network protection – built directly into our high-capacity backbone
✔ Ultra-fast DDoS mitigation – <30 seconds in-line mitigation, no inefficient traffic redirection
✔ Scalable, AI-driven defense – Adapts to evolving attack patterns, resulting in fewer false positives and better overall traffic quality
With NL-ix, you get fast, reliable, and privacy-first DDoS protection, without sending traffic to third-party scrubbing centers. This ensures your network remains secure, compliant with privacy laws, and consistently high-performing. Protect your business today!
Our solution combines Deepfield Defender’s AI/ML-driven DDoS protection platform and Nokia’s sophisticated IP routers with our patented Secure Genome®, a unique cloud-based data feed that tracks the security context of the internet and has visibility into over 5 billion IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. These capabilities will empower NL-ix to improve protection for their European enterprise customers, while lowering costs, removing human errors, and improving NL-ix’s overall scale of security and automation.
Jeff Smith - Vice-President and General Manager @ Nokia Deepfield
Data Privacy and Security Advantage of NL-ix DDoS Protection
Traditional anti-DDoS solutions require enterprises to send their traffic to (often foreign) third-party scrubbing centers, raising concerns about data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance. These external providers can expose sensitive business data to additional risks, including potential violations of GDPR and other regional data protection laws.
In contrast, NL-ix’s anti-DDoS solution keeps your traffic securely within our European network. By embedding the DDoS mitigation directly into our high-capacity backbone, NL-ix ensures that your data remains within your control, reducing exposure to foreign entities and minimizing the risks associated with routing traffic through third-party providers.
This approach provides enterprises with greater data privacy, compliance with regional data protection regulations, and a secure, local solution—all while maintaining high-performance, real-time protection against DDoS attacks.
Protection Against a Wide Range of Attacks
By leveraging Nokia Deepfield's advanced traffic analytics, machine learning, and AI, NL-ix DDoS Protection can quickly detect and mitigate a variety of attack types, protecting your network with minimal performance impact and ensuring the highest levels of security.
- Volumetric Attacks: These large-scale attacks flood the network with excessive traffic, aiming to overwhelm bandwidth and degrade performance.
- Protocol Attacks: These attacks exploit weaknesses in network protocols, such as SYN floods, DNS amplification, and NTP reflection.
- Application Layer Attacks: These attacks target specific applications (e.g., HTTP floods) to disrupt service by consuming server resources. Deepfield's AI-driven analytics can differentiate between legitimate and attack traffic at the application layer, preventing service disruption.
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs): NL-ix DDoS Protection is also capable of detecting sophisticated, long-duration DDoS attacks designed to evade traditional detection methods, offering proactive defense against targeted campaigns.
The evolution of the modern IXP
As the demand for faster, more secure, and scalable connectivity grows, IXPs are transforming from simple traffic exchange hubs into sophisticated platforms that support a wide range of services, including advanced security and data protection.
Discover how NL-ix is at the forefront of this transformation and why modern IXPs are essential for enabling the next generation of Internet services.
Beyond Peering: our vision on anti-DDoS
In this article, NL-ix shares its vision for the future of anti-DDoS protection and how it goes beyond traditional peering. As DDoS attacks become more frequent and complex, NL-ix is evolving its services to provide proactive, integrated security solutions that protect both network infrastructure and critical business applications.
Explore how NL-ix is shaping the future of DDoS defense and why its approach is a game-changer for businesses seeking enhanced protection in a connected world.