We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The solution is easy to use."
"I like all the features together as a whole."
"We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"The solution provides good protection against volumetric DDoS attacks."
"It provides packet capture and we can block or whitelist whichever IPs we need to. Whatever traffic we want to block - and we get IPs from internal teams and from national teams - we block at the Arbor level only, because if it gets to the firewall then firewall bandwidth will be taken."
"Using standard BGP, NetFlow and SNMP ensure wide compatibility. There are also peering traffic reports that can help identify upstream peering opportunities. The ATLAS aggregation service allows us to contribute to the global DDoS data and benefit from overall trends."
"Its scalability is big. It is for large deployments of big organizations and service providers."
"With real-time packet capture features, you can easily and quickly response."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"On the main page there are alerts that we are unable to clear, even though the issue has been resolved."
"An issue which needs to be addressed concerns information I received of attacks on the radar and Arbor, allegedly, not taking any action."
"Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful."
"There is some room for AI to take place."
"I think the diversity of protection is extremely limited. It must be expanded in future upgrades and versions."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and Kentik, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Cloudflare DDoS, Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare, AWS Shield and Lumen DDoS Mitigation.
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There are two aspects for this query:
1) if the client has multiple applications that needs to be considered for DDos protection I will prefer to go with Prolexic, but
2) if the client has multiple network devices and those devices are front facing for being a security appliances then I recommend to go with Arbor network for DDos protection, because it has the capability to handle large size of packet length as well as the volume of the packets.
It's has been a great experienced for me by evaluating arbor networks which is very well when considering the protection of network devices (core, edge) having a virtualized environment and on site solutions .
For prolexic they have a wide verity of solution for applications that are custom develop or using a vendor based application. It's function
From experience between Akamai prolexic and Arbor to me is the mitigation techniques and integration to your network. Prolexic uses Netflow in order to detect an attack and then switch traffic to their solution in order to mitigate the attack. The most effective technique to mitigate attacks according to them is an always-on solution, meaning that you're routing your traffic to their network, which adds a hop and depending on your geographical location, can increase network latency.
Arbor solutions usually work with On-Premise Equipment which does mitigation of low and slow, layer 7 or low yield volumetric attacks. The advantage of Arbor solutions lies in a hybrid solution providing this on-prem technology and cloud scrubbing center capabilities for volumetric attacks which your network cannot handle.