Case study: Arvato Systems beats DDoS attacks with Equinix and Link11

What the case study covers

Arvato Systems harnessed Link11 Cloud Security on Platform Equinix®, eliminating DDoS cyberattacks via a redundant network and security infrastructure.

Arvato Systems serves the IT needs of both internal and external customers. It offers solutions for multiple industries such as retail/e-commerce, media, healthcare and utilities. Given the increase in volume and complexity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the company needed to scale the mitigation capacity of its data center and security architecture. Harnessing Link11’s cloud-native DDoS protection service on Platform Equinix ensured that only “clean traffic” reached Arvato Systems’Systems’ and its customers’ networks.

Equinix and Link11 helped Arvato Systems significantly expand the scalability and reliability of its DDoS cybersecurity infrastructure for its internal users and external customers while gaining high- performance, low-latency connectivity to multiple service providers. This solution provided Arvato Systems with benefits like eliminated system failures, doubled internet bandwidth capacity, increased system capacity, and greater network and system resiliency.