Arbor Networks 10 Gig Threat Management System

Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, announced today the industry's first 10 Gig distributed denial of service (DDoS) detection and mitigation system that enables application-layer attack protection. The Threat Management System 3100 (TMS) delivers deep packet inspection (DPI) of more than 80 critical IP services and applications running on the network, such as DNS, HTTP, VoIP, IM and P2P, while also delivering application-layer attack detection, surgical mitigation and reporting. This unique combination allows service

providers to maintain availability, reduce support costs and optimise current or future business services.

“We spent a great deal of time in this release improving workflow, reporting and developing one-click mitigation capabilities,” said Rob Malan, Arbor’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “First to market with a 10 gig mitigation platform is certainly important, but providers are also looking for scalable, rapid deployment of managed services that are easy to operate and manage. This release addresses the 10 Gig market, while dramatically improving the operational benefits of the overall TMS platform.”

By tightly integrating TMS into the Peakflow SP platform (“Peakflow SP”), Arbor Networks delivers a solution that combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with carrier-class threat management that automatically detects and surgically removes only attack traffic while maintaining legitimate business traffic. Additionally, TMS complements Peakflow SP’s other mitigation techniques, including fingerprint sharing, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) black-hole routing, BGP flow-spec and support for other mitigation technologies.