Case Study: Southern state government achieves DDoS protection and increased bandwidth with Windstream Enterprise

State Government - Customer Case Study

State Government, a southern U.S. state with 70,000+ employees and 1,200+ locations, was facing unexplained network outages, recurring DDoS attacks, insufficient bandwidth and tight agency-funded budgets. As a long-time customer of Windstream Enterprise, the state's NOC detected the attacks and highlighted the need for a scalable mitigation and capacity solution.

Windstream Enterprise deployed its DDoS Mitigation Service and increased Dedicated Internet Services with Point-to-Point/Ethernet connectivity, delivering 90 Gbps of Internet capacity (30 Gbps at three locations) and geographic redundancy. The rapid installation and easy-to-use DDoS portal helped the agency detect and block attacks, discover additional threats, and raise per-user bandwidth targets—resulting in a more secure, resilient and cost-effective network with measurable increases in bandwidth and improved cybersecurity performance.