Nokia has been selected by global Internet Exchange Point, the London Internet Exchange (LINX), to deliver advanced network protection capabilities against the latest and future generations of DDoS threats and attacks. With Nokia Deepfield DDoS security, LINX becomes the first UK-based IXP to offer advanced DDoS protection with trusted performance, scale and mitigation granularity, ensuring minimal impact on member connectivity and services.
DDoS is malicious traffic that aims to deny access, degrade services or stop connectivity for individual users, internet hosts and service provider network infrastructure. The Nokia Threat Intelligence Report, released in October 2024, found that the number and frequency of DDoS attacks have grown from one or two a day to well over 100 per day in many networks, with botnet DDoS continuing to be the primary source of DDoS attacks. To combat sophisticated DDoS attacks, service and cloud providers need a more intelligent, cost-effective, scalable and adaptable defense strategy.
Paul Alexander, VP and Country General Manager UK&I, Nokia, said:
“The past year has accelerated massive and transformative changes to the internet, bringing with it an incredible rise in DDoS attacks – they are more potent, frequent, and sophisticated than ever. With Nokia, LINX will obtain critical DDoS security-related visibility, leveraging Nokia Deepfield’s big data approach and using Deepfield Defender and 7750 DMS to access a more intelligent, cost-effective, scalable and adaptable defence strategy.”
LINX announced last year the activation of a basic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation solution across all of their peering LANs. This service, LINX Protect, was born following demand from the member community within the enterprise and financial sector in particular and helps to maintain a high level of service networks.
Mike Hellers, Head of Product Development at LINX, said:
“With Nokia Deepfield, LINX will gain significant cyber security capabilities. We are proud to be the first UK IXP to deliver this next generation of advanced DDoS protection to our members, which, in turn, will be providing essential or critical services to their customers.”
This new element to the partnership with Nokia allows LINX to offer a more advanced DDoS solution for their member community. LINX Protect+ with Nokia Deepfield is in a beta phase right now and any LINX member networks connected to the LON1 fabric in London should reach out if they would like to be part of it.