Akamai's Prolexic service was recommended to a company seeking DDoS protection that can receive all traffic and return clean traffic via a GRE tunnel.

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        "excerpt": "Hi there,\n\n Generally speaking what you're looking for here is the ability to accept clean traffic back in your desired way (either GRE or via physical cross connect). On demand BGP ramp-on/ramp-off. And insights in attack traffic/mitigation behavior.",
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        "excerpt": "I will get the mitigation details and SLA from Arelion/RETN side by side and compare those rather than choosing purely on brand, also ask very clearly about RTBH or Blackholing. Some provider will protect the rest of their network by routing your prefix once certain thresholds are hit.",
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        "excerpt": "We are using RETN for a couple of years without any issue, some of our customers are gamers and with their prefix under ddos they don't experience lag at all due to the fact RETN protects near to the attacker and not near to the customer",
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