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Comment by jeremyjh

4 years ago

They are not just providing transit. They are the front-end webserver receiving the request and sending the response. Transit is someone like AT&T or Sprint.

>They are the front-end webserver receiving the request and sending the response.

When providing ddos protection they are mostly filtering out the attacks then forwarding traffic to the customers back end server. That describes 'transit' pretty well.