BNIX partners with NaWas to better protect organizations from distributed denial of service attacks.

BNIX will work with the Dutch National Car Wash (NaWas) to protect organizations from DDoS attacks. Through the collaboration, companies connected to the Belgian Internet Exchange will have access to advanced technology that filters malicious traffic and ensures a more reliable and secure Belgian Internet.

Collaboration with NaWas

NaWas, a service provided by the Dutch Foundation for the National Administrative Organization of Internet Providers, protects organizations by filtering suspicious data streams. DDoS attacks can overwhelm the traffic capacity of smaller parties, making them inaccessible to even legitimate traffic. NaWas has the ability to filter such a DDoS attack and extract legitimate requests from it. Clean data is returned to the customer, ensuring services remain available even during a DDoS attack.

BNIX customers, including Internet service providers, hosting companies and content providers, can use this technology over a private VLAN connection. In the event of an attack, traffic is redirected via the BGP routing protocol, cleaned up by NaWas, and then returned correctly. Once the attack stops, the normal traffic route will be restored. BNIX Alternative BelgiumIX started a similar collaboration a few years ago.

With the NaWas service, BNIX offers additional security for Belgian companies that rely on stable internet connections. Frédéric Libotte from BNIX emphasizes that this helps customers get the most out of their connection and contributes to a safer internet.

Frank Dupker from NaWas adds that the connection via BNIX also offers a redundancy system for customers who are already connected via other internet nodes.