A New Milestone: StormWall’s Global Mitigation Capacity Exceeds 10 Tbps

Back in May, we announced that our global mitigation capacity had reached 8 Tbps. Just six months later, we’ve raised the bar to 10 Tbps — a 25% increase in such a short time! Here’s how we achieved this increase and what it means for our customers.

How We Got There

10 Tbps is an important milestone for us. This milestone reflects the tremendous work of the entire StormWall engineering team. Our engineers continuously upgrade equipment, optimize network infrastructure, and expand the capacity of our scrubbing centers around the world.

Over the past six months, we have:

• Launched new scrubbing centers in Los Angeles and São Paulo. These locations bring our infrastructure closer to customers across the United States and Latin America. This means lower latency, better connectivity, and faster DDoS mitigation because traffic is processed closer to its source.
• Expanded our network connectivity in Singapore. We connected our scrubbing center to Telstra, one of the leading telecommunications providers in the APAC region, as well as to SGIX, a major Internet exchange in Southeast Asia.
• Upgraded our network in Frankfurt. We established a connection to NL-IX, adding another Internet exchange to our European network. We also expanded our connectivity to DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet exchanges, and increased the bandwidth available through our connections to Arelion and NTT.
• Connected our Dubai infrastructure to UAE-IX. This has improved traffic routing across the Middle East and enhanced our DDoS mitigation capabilities throughout the MENA region.
• Connected our Miami scrubbing center to FL-IX. The facility opened in May, and this new link adds another important connection to our regional infrastructure.

In addition, we’ve upgraded equipment and modernized filtering systems at these and other locations. These improvements have boosted the performance of our scrubbing centers, made traffic distribution more efficient, and provided extra headroom to handle large-scale DDoS attacks.

What 10 Tbps Means for Our Customers

Greater global mitigation capacity strengthens our ability to handle today’s DDoS threats. But raw capacity is only part of the equation.

Our infrastructure must also withstand peak loads, which continue to rise. The pace of this growth is striking: just a year ago, terabit-scale attacks targeting StormWall customers were rare. Today, we mitigate attacks of this scale almost every day.

“We’re already mitigating attacks exceeding 3.4 Tbps. And judging by how botnets are evolving and other developments in the DDoS landscape, incidents of this scale may soon become the new normal. The demands on our infrastructure will continue to grow at an incredible pace. That’s why we’re constantly expanding our capabilities and building additional headroom,” says Ramil Khantimirov, Co-Founder and CEO of StormWall.

Our 10 Tbps global mitigation capacity is an important indicator of the resilience of our protection.Geographic distribution is another key factor in maintaining service availability, even during the strongest DDoS attacks. StormWall operates 10 scrubbing centers across the globe. This allows us to distribute traffic between locations and, most importantly, filter malicious requests closer to their source, enabling faster attack mitigation. 

And We’re Just Getting Started

10 Tbps is not our limit. We continue to expand our global infrastructure and increase the capacity of our facilities around the world.

Want to learn how StormWall’s scrubbing centers and global network can help protect your business? Get in touch — we’d be happy to share more details and answer your questions.