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PenTeleData Chooses Radware to Protect Its Networks and Customers Connected to Its IP Services

Company Size

1,000+

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Radware’s Attack Mitigation System (AMS)

Tech Stack

Kentik Technologies’ cloud-based NetFlow analytics solution

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Founded in 1994, PenTeleData is a strategic partnership of cable and telephone companies, including Service Electric Cable TV and Communications, Service Electric Broadband Cable, Service Electric Cablevision, Ironton Telephone, and Blue Ridge Communications. The PenTeleData partnership has over 9,000 miles of fiber optic cabling, over $300 million invested in fiber optic infrastructure, and 60 Points of Presence (PoPs) that serves customers in all facets of life from their homes to businesses, including banking, health care, education, government, retail sales, and the wireless industry.

The Challenge

PenTeleData, a strategic partnership of cable and telephone companies, was facing issues with its legacy security solution. The old system often resulted in application disruptions, connectivity disruptions, and security threats to PenTeleData’s infrastructure. The company required a new solution that could consistently protect its infrastructure and that would be able to integrate with DDoS detection from Kentik Technologies’ cloud-based NetFlow analytics solution. Moreover, PenTeleData was seeking to use this new security offering as the foundation for launching a new DDoS mitigation service it could sell to its customers, allowing them to stay operational during a cyber-attack.

The Solution

PenTeleData deployed Radware’s Attack Mitigation System (AMS) due to its ability to mitigate a wide range of attack vectors without the need for human intervention and without blocking legitimate user traffic, in addition to its ability to integrate with Kentik Technologies’ cloud-based NetFlow analytics solution. Radware’s AMS is a behavioral-based real-time cyber security solution that detects and mitigates emerging network attacks in real time, such as zero-day attacks, DoS/DDoS attacks, and application misuse attacks. Radware’s AMS is deployed in two locations: internally at PenTeleData’s scrubbing center and a second implementation with a customer that is leveraging Radware’s cloud scrubbing center for volumetric attack mitigation.

Operational Impact

PenTeleData has eliminated half of the maintenance effort associated with the previous DDoS solution
PenTeleData is using AMS to mitigate attacks in its scrubbing centers for customers
PenTeleData is reselling AMS to customers as a DDoS protection service