WAN Defense Mitigation Sample Clauses

WAN Defense Mitigation. WAN Defense Mitigation is a managed network-based traffic analysis service providing anomaly detection and alerts for subscribed customers when their traffic deviates from normal traffic patterns. Traffic deviation is typically a sign that a denial-of-service attack is either enroute or in progress. MCI has the capabilities to divert this malicious traffic away from the subscriber’s network, while maintaining the integrity of the customer’s network if the customer’s network communication is potentially compromised. All equipment associated with WAN Defense Mitigation resides on the MCI network and remains the property of MCI. A denial-of-service attack (DoS Attack) is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target by flooding the target system with malicious traffic which essentially exhausts available capacity and denies access to the service by legitimate users. The WAN Defense Mitigation capabilities include the customer’s ability to trigger a network-based redirection of valid traffic and DoS Attack traffic to pre-deployed mitigation centers; and MCI’s determination of status and metrics associated with any DoS Attack, identification and separation of DoS Attack traffic from legitimate traffic and forwarding of valid traffic back to the customer. WAN Defense Mitigation will be sold in shared capacity of 500 mb to 3 Gigs of traffic per site. If a customer requires capacity in excess of 3 Gigs of traffic per site, the customer is required to purchase additional capacity in tiers of 500 mb from MCI.