🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-23

January 24, 2025

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye. Specifically, the claim of ~5.6 Tbps of traffic during the peak of one DDoS attack.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p10#a250122p10

For perspective, in 2013 there was one DDoS attack that “almost broke the Internet” which was claimed to be ~0.085 Tbps of traffic.

https://www.techmeme.com/130327/p29#a130327p29

My point is, the comparisons are quite a bit different. The mitigation techniques and expansion of the Cloudflare business has likely changed.

Also likely is those differences have turned into a different kind of data claim for marketing purposes. So, I do wonder if the claims will one day relate to the theoretical throughput of a modern multi-Tbps Ethernet switch slot or a collection of switches at fully populated slot capacity.

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