NETWORK DEFENSE

DDoS controls positioned before the application boundary.

Layered mitigation for volumetric and protocol-level attacks, combining route control, ingress filtering, telemetry and application-aware policies where required.

TWELVE YEARS OF INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS · API-FIRST CONTROL · ENGINEERED FOR PRODUCTION

BITACTIVE / NETWORK DEFENSELIVE ARCHITECTURE VIEW
MITIGATEFILTERTRAFFIC → DETECTCLEAN PATH / FORWARD
TRAFFIC → DETECT → MITIGATE → CLEAN PATHFORWARD
L3–L7layered controls
Anycastdistributed ingress
24/7network operations
Telemetrycontinuous signals

VISUAL / SERVICE MODEL

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This view summarizes the service boundary, decision points and operational signals for Network Defense.

System topologyLOGICAL VIEW / NOT TO SCALE
MITIGATEFILTERTRAFFIC → DETECTCLEAN PATH / FORWARD
The diagram represents the logical request or control path. Exact placement, capacity and failure-domain selection are defined during architecture review.
Operational signalsCONTROL PLANE
TRAFFIC
INGRESS
82%
DETECT
CLASSIFY
67%
MITIGATE
FILTER
91%
CLEAN PATH
FORWARD
74%
Visual status indicators are conceptual UI examples and do not expose customer data.
01 / TRAFFICINGRESS

Traffic or control enters a defined service boundary.

02 / DETECTCLASSIFY

Policy and placement are evaluated against current state.

03 / MITIGATEFILTER

The workload is processed by the appropriate infrastructure layer.

04 / CLEAN PATHFORWARD

Telemetry is preserved so the path can be explained operationally.

01 / OPERATING MODEL

Infrastructure decisions stay visible.

BitActive treats ddos protection as part of an end-to-end infrastructure path rather than as an isolated product. The design starts with where traffic enters the platform, how the resource is reached over private and public networks, what state is maintained, and which failure domains must remain independent. This approach reflects twelve years of operating infrastructure for production workloads: capacity, route quality, failure handling and observability are considered together instead of being delegated to separate layers with no shared context.

Configuration is intended to remain explicit and reviewable. For DDoS Protection, resource sizing and topology are selected around the workload rather than a single public package list. Changes are versioned through API-oriented workflows so that operational state can be compared with intended state. Monitoring focuses on signals that help an engineering team make a decision: health, saturation, request timing, network behaviour and dependency state. The goal is not to expose every possible metric, but to preserve enough context to identify whether a problem belongs to compute, storage, network, delivery or the application itself.

02 / ARCHITECTURE

How the service sits in the request path.

Logical components are deliberately shown as separate stages so routing, policy and failure behaviour can be reasoned about.

BITACTIVE / REQUEST PATHARCHITECTURE
InternetSTAGE 01
Anycast ingressSTAGE 02
FilteringSTAGE 03
Policy engineSTAGE 04
Protected serviceSTAGE 05
The diagram is a logical service path. Exact routing, placement and capacity are selected per workload and service profile.

03 / ENGINEERING

Designed for operational work, not just deployment.

Capacity, observability, networking and lifecycle operations are treated as first-class parts of the service.

01

Volumetric absorption

Distribute traffic across the edge fabric and enforce network-layer controls before traffic reaches origin capacity.

02

Protocol controls

Apply connection, rate and request policies to reduce abuse patterns that do not require application execution.

03

Origin isolation

Use private paths, restricted ingress and explicit service boundaries so the public edge does not expose origin topology.

04

Operational response

Telemetry-driven escalation and rule changes support incident handling without turning every event into an application change.

04 / TECHNICAL PROFILE

Service characteristics.

Exact configuration is finalized during architecture review. Values below describe the normal operating model rather than a public rate card.

CoverageL3/L4 baseline with L7 policies by service
RoutingAnycast ingress and controlled origin paths
ControlsACL, rate, connection and request policies
TelemetryTraffic volume, protocol and mitigation events
Operations24/7 infrastructure monitoring
Change modelVersioned policy configuration

05 / OPERATIONS

Production changes are deliberate.

BitActive does not treat production infrastructure as a sequence of anonymous self-service transactions. New deployments begin with topology, traffic profile, recovery objective and integration review. That context is then carried into provisioning, monitoring and change management so the operational team knows what the service is intended to do before it needs to respond to an exception.

Hardware and software vendors are selected around technical fit. Depending on the workload, the platform uses current-generation technology from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell Technologies and Supermicro. These references describe the technology ecosystem used in infrastructure design; they are not customer references and do not imply a commercial partnership beyond ordinary technology use.

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