A new partnership between NBIP and BelgiumIX, the alternative interconnection platform for service providers, brings NaWas, the National Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center, to Belgium.
A DDoS attack is a type of cyberattack where a large volume of data traffic is sent to networks or servers. This enormous, unstoppable influx of data traffic completely saturates the network, rendering it unusable. Everything goes offline until the attack stops.
NaWas is the Dutch National Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center. During an attack, the enormous amount of traffic to the affected IP addresses is redirected and filtered. The affected IP addresses and networks become accessible again within minutes, even if the attack continues. Compared to on-premise solutions, you can process much more data traffic without having to purchase hardware and arrange all these connectivity contracts for the excessive data traffic yourself. Today, an attack is usually of such a magnitude that an average operator can no longer process it on their own. In the past year alone, NaWas processed about 1,600 attacks, and in the last quarter, we’ve seen attacks with a magnitude of more than 300 Gbps.
BelgiumIX already connects 10 data centers today. With all these partnerships, they not only keep data traffic within Belgium but also try to create real synergies between all connected parties. The collaboration with NBIP gives BelgiumIX the opportunity to actively help provide smaller operators and companies with very easy access to an affordable but robust DDoS security platform.
As an operator, you previously had to be internationally active or have a completely separate internet connection on hand, with all kinds of technical limitations, to be able to use such an external scrubbing center. One of the great advantages that the BelgiumIX platform now offers is that during an attack, you can route all your data traffic through NaWas, and only filtered, clean data traffic is delivered back to your connection at any of the connected locations. BelgiumIX does not charge any additional costs to smaller operators. The combined solution works just as if you own a private cable to the inside of the scrubbing center. This alone brings enormous additional security and also guarantees that the performance of the clean traffic is maintained.
DDoS attacks are affecting internet service providers (ISPs), content delivery networks (CDNs), and enterprises more frequently than ever before. Data is lost, and business operations are increasingly hindered by the growing number of DDoS attacks. Within Belgium, Belnet and EDPnet were also severely affected by DDoS attacks in the past year.
