Akamai Prolexic vs. Kentik Comparison


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About Akamai Prolexic is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection platform designed to defend cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure against large-scale network attacks. It can be deployed as an always-on or on-demand cloud service, as an on-premises solution powered by Corero, or as a hybrid combination of both approaches. Prolexic routes incoming traffic through its protection infrastructure, inspects it for attacks, filters malicious traffic, and delivers legitimate traffic to protected systems. The service operates across 32 global anycast scrubbing centers with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity, supported by Akamai's network with more than 1 Pbps of capacity. Prolexic provides a 100% platform availability SLA, a zero-second mitigation SLA, dynamic IPv4 and IPv6 mitigation controls, network-wide ACL and firewall rules, and 24/7/365 support.	About Kentik delivers the insight and network analytics you need to run all of your networks. Old and new. The ones you own and the ones you don't. Monitor your traffic from your network to the cloud to the internet on one screen. We provide: - Network Performance Analytics - Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Analytics (GCP, AWS, Azure) - Internet and Edge Performance Monitoring - Infrastructure Visibility - DNS Security and DDoS Attack Defense - Data Center Analytics - Application Performance Monitoring - Capacity Planning - Container Networking - Service Provider Intelligence - Real Time Network Forensics - Network Costs Analytics All on One Platform for Visibility, Performance, and Security. Trusted by Pandora, Box, Cogent, Tata, Yelp, University of Washington, GTT and more! Free trial or demo!
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Audience Enterprises, network service providers, cloud and hosting providers, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS companies, and security and network operations teams that need high-capacity DDoS detection, mitigation, and network protection across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure	Audience Enterprise, Carrier \| CDN \| IP Transit, ISP \| Telco \| MSO, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure, Research and Education and Digital Enterprises
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Company Information Akamai Founded: 1998 United States www.akamai.com	Company Information Kentik Founded: 2014 United States kentik.com
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Categories DDoS Protection Supported	Categories Capacity Planning Supported CDN Supported Container Networking Supported DDoS Protection Supported IT Security Supported Network Assessment Supported Network Bandwidth Monitoring Supported Network Monitoring Supported Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) Supported Observability Supported
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Integrations A10 Defend DDoS Mitigator Not Supported Akamai Supported Flow Not Supported GigaSECURE Not Supported Kamsa Not Supported PagerDuty Not Supported Pliant Not Supported Slack Not Supported Zoho Directory Not Supported View All 1 Integration	Integrations A10 Defend DDoS Mitigator Supported Akamai Not Supported Flow Supported GigaSECURE Supported Kamsa Supported PagerDuty Supported Pliant Supported Slack Supported Zoho Directory Supported View All 8 Integrations
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