Tata Comm intros Internet Clean Pipe service

MUMBAI, INDIA: Telecommunications service provider Tata Communications announced on Thursday that it would start providing built-in Distributed Denial of Service( DdoS) detection and mitigation services as a part of its dedicated Internet access offering in North America.

With the launch of its Internet Clean Pipe service, Enterprises would be able to leverage Tata Comms global network and Managed Security Service(MSS) offering to mitigate DdoS attacks, said a press release.

The Internet Clean Pipe services rides on the largest DdoS scrubbing architecture that is able to absorb the traffic volumes generated by botnets, buying time to activate countermeasures.

"Tata Communications' Internet Clean Pipe service identifies DDoS attacks well before the traffic reaches a customer's network and mitigates the attack within the huge capacity of Tata Communications' backbone," Tata Communications global managed services senior vice president John Landau said in a statement.

He added that for customers, the service provides an effective and very affordable single-supplier combination of Internet connectivity with protection against the DDoS attacks that could otherwise seriously damage their Internet dependent business.

Tata Comm Internet Clean Pipe offering leverages technology from Arbor Networks, a DdoS mitigation specialist, and rides on Tata Comm's global Tier-1 network with 1.5Tbps.

The service scrutinizes network traffic in real time to identify anomalies and quarantine attack packets and block malicious traffic

The Clean Pipe service leverages reliable network based defense while simultaneously optimizing bandwidth utilization, the release added.