Linode Linode Network Status Updates April 2016

eva2000 · May 8, 2016

In light of recent DDOS attacks against Linode again, Linode has posted a new network status update for April 2016 Linode Blog » Network Status Updates – April 2016 As I suspected part of the recent network maintenance notices have been working towards their originally announced DDOS mitigation plans

In his January blog post, Alex Forster articulated that we have a plan in motion to upgrade the network across all of our data centers. We would like to share with everyone what has been done so far, and what still needs doing.
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Infrastructure Improvements
Status: In progress
Expected Completion: Mid May

Phase one of our plan is to install new higher capacity networking hardware in every one of our locations. These new devices will greatly increase our capacity to the internet and allow us to multi-home to many internet peers at once. Our Network Operations team has been rolling out this new hardware as quickly as possible and is currently working on many simultaneous turn-ups with our providers. By mid-May we hope to have these installations complete.

Dark Fiber Turn-ups
Status: In progress
Expected Completion: July

Due to infrastructure variations between geographic locations, we have had to get creative in our mission to turn up large amounts of additional bandwidth capacity at our various data centers in order to reach the tier 1 providers in each region. Our first plan involved the procurement of 200 Gbps of lit services from our data center locations to the well connected carrier hotels. The provider estimated a late June install date for the first location. That timeline was unacceptable to us, so we decided to lease our own dark fiber and light it ourselves. The time to market is much quicker and the potential capacity is much greater. Instead of the fixed 200 Gbps of capacity per DC we can turn up many terabits of capacity per DC on demand. We expect to begin rolling out the optical gear in the next few weeks and hope to have the first locations up in mid May.

Internet Capacity
Status: In progress
Expected Completion: July

Internet capacity is a large part of our DDoS mitigation strategy – the more capacity, the better. We are currently working on turning up terabits of capacity to the Internet and have started to achieve this by peering with hundreds of Internet peers over many high capacity links. We have also reached agreements with three more tier 1 providers to provide us more connectivity to the Internet across all of our data center locations. We will begin installation of the first batch of connectivity from those agreements next week in Frankfurt.

Our entire Network Operations team has been working really hard to bring everyone these upgrades as quickly as possible. Your patience and understanding over the last few months have been greatly appreciated, and we look forward to sharing the benefits of these upgrades with everyone soon.
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