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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

(blog.cloudflare.com)
265 points methuselah_in | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.546s | source
1. shrubble ◴[24 Jun 25 14:25 UTC] No.44366618[source]▶
The current optics are 400gbps, and 800gbps are sampling; next up is 1.6 tbps; so this is 20x400gbps, basically 1 expensive switch’s worth of traffic. Which is itself a scary prospect!
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2. immibis ◴[24 Jun 25 22:43 UTC] No.44371834[source]▶
It's cloudflare so it's distributed. 10Gbps at this POP, 20Gbps at that one...