If you’ve ever relied on a traditional DDoS appliance, you’ve probably experienced the moment it fails — when an attack exceeds the appliance’s processing capacity, and your “protection” becomes the bottleneck. We’ve seen it happen with products from the biggest names in the industry.
CoreEdge™ was designed to ensure that never happens.
The Problem With Traditional Appliances
Legacy DDoS appliances share a fundamental limitation: they process packets through the operating system’s full networking stack. Every packet — whether legitimate or malicious — goes through the same slow path: NIC → kernel → application → decision.
This creates three critical problems:
- Speed ceiling — The appliance CPU becomes the bottleneck under heavy attack
- Added latency — Every packet experiences processing delay, even clean traffic
- Scaling limits — You need more hardware for more capacity, with diminishing returns
We’ve seen legacy solutions rated for “multi-terabit” capacity collapse at 200-300 Gbps of real attack traffic. Marketing specs and real-world performance are very different things.
How CoreEdge™ Solves This
CoreEdge™ takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of processing packets through the operating system, it intercepts them at the network card level — before they ever enter the kernel.
The result:
Zero Added Latency
Attack traffic is dropped at the network interface. Your legitimate users never experience any delay because their packets take the normal path while attack packets are eliminated before they consume any server resources.
Unlimited Scalability
Because CoreEdge™ offloads filtering to the network card’s own processors, your server CPU stays near 0% during even the largest attacks. This means you can handle terabits of attack traffic without any performance degradation on your actual services.
Wire-Speed Processing
CoreEdge™ processes packets at the maximum speed your network interface supports — whether that’s 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, or 100 Gbps per port. There’s no software bottleneck because the filtering happens in hardware.
Deployment Options
CoreEdge™ is available in two deployment modes, both delivering identical protection:
Cloud-Based Protection (BGP / GRE / IX)
Your traffic routes through our global scrubbing centers. We announce your IP prefixes via BGP, filter attack traffic, and return only clean packets to your network.
Best for:
- ISPs and hosting providers
- Cloud platforms and CDN operators
- Networks that want protection without on-site hardware
- Rapid deployment (same-day via GRE tunnel)
On-Premises Deployment
A CoreEdge™ server is deployed directly inside your datacenter, connecting inline to your network uplink. All filtering happens locally — your traffic never leaves your facility.
Best for:
- Financial institutions with data sovereignty requirements
- Government networks with strict compliance mandates
- Enterprise datacenters requiring zero external dependencies
- Organizations that need absolute minimum latency
What CoreEdge™ Filters
CoreEdge™ handles every known DDoS attack vector:
| Attack Type | Description | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|
| UDP Floods | Massive bandwidth consumption | Dropped at wire speed |
| SYN Floods | Connection table exhaustion | Stateful SYN validation |
| DNS Reflection | Amplified DNS responses | Source verification + drop |
| NTP Amplification | Amplified NTP responses | Protocol validation |
| ICMP Floods | Ping-based volumetric attacks | Rate limiting + drop |
| ACK Floods | Stateless ACK packet storms | Connection state tracking |
| HTTP Floods | Application layer overload | L7 fingerprint analysis |
| Slowloris | Slow connection exhaustion | Connection timeout enforcement |
SLA Guarantees
CoreEdge™ protection comes with contractual SLA commitments — not marketing promises:
- Average Time to Mitigation: < 1 minute — across all attack types
- Guaranteed TTM: 5 minutes — the absolute maximum, covering worst-case scenarios
- 100% Mitigation Efficiency — every malicious packet is filtered once mitigation is active
- 99.99% Network Uptime — infrastructure-level availability guarantee
If we fail to meet these commitments, you receive SLA credits. That’s how confident we are.
How It Works With CoreDetection™
CoreEdge™ and CoreDetection™ work as a unified system:
- CoreDetection™ continuously monitors your traffic for threats
- When an attack is confirmed, it automatically generates filtering rules
- CoreEdge™ deploys those rules across all nodes in sub-second time
- Attack traffic is dropped at the network card — your services stay online
- When the attack ends, rules are automatically removed to restore normal operations
No manual intervention. No SOC engineer scrambling to write firewall rules. Detection to mitigation in under 60 seconds.
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