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Grupo Aire participates in the Aslan conference "Security and new services in specialized TELCO operators"
21 May, 2021
May 21, 2021 - On May 5, Grupo Aire's CTO, Zigor Gaubeca, participated in the round table "Security and new services in specialized TELCO operators", in the conference with the same name, within the 2021 Intelligent Networks Live Technology Trends Forum. In it, different companies in the sector met to analyze how to provide support to operators and what are the most outstanding strategic projects. On behalf of Grupo Aire, Gaubeca explained that they are working on three lines of action to offer customers and end users greater bandwidth. The first of these is the infrastructure, the focus of the group's attention, especially in high-capacity environments. “Our network is a differential value, especially because of the services layer that can be developed on top of it. We are growing a lot. For this year we plan to increase it by almost 4,000 kilometers, between deployment and activation. In addition, we have always been very concerned about the issue of latencies. Gaubeca continued by explaining the second major project that Grupo Aire is working on: data centers, especially Edge computing, which are within the core business . In this regard, it is worth highlighting the recent integration of an own orchestrator. “We are very knowledgeable and we have quite a few clients from proximity data centers. The idea is to have the services very close to the client, which is what is increasingly being demanded of us, ”said Grupo Aire's CTO. The next big project that Gaubeca spoke about was the cloud world, which would be “the icing on the cake for data centers”. "We have a lot of presence and we are making a lot of progress with the large public clouds and also private cloud, based on projects with Openstack, VMWare ... And being able to orchestrate all these clouds, that amalgam of services."
In addition, Gaubeca stressed that all this must always be linked to security, which is intrinsic to service. After the round table, a series of conferences took place, including the one that he himself gave with the title "Antiddos systems in operator environments: keys to intelligent traffic filtering. In it, he highlighted that Covid has led to many more security attacks. The most common are volumetric, in which an attempt is made to knock down the target network. The big problem is that the origin comes from thousands of networks with vulnerable services. They are very easy to generate and are very network intensive. Gaubeca explained that Grupo Aire is making different approaches to mitigate these attacks. There is a first detection phase, in which the most widespread techniques are SFLOW / IPFIX traffic collection; and a second one for mitigation with RTBH and FlowSpec techniques. RTBH applies full filtering policy, the attacker succeeds in blocking a destination, but the network does not go down. FlowSpec, on the other hand, allows for more granular mitigation, it can cut off only flows that exceed predefined thresholds or send traffic to a scrubbing center for further analysis. One technique or another will be chosen depending on the service. You can
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