10 Gig Threat Management System From Arbor

By Alan Harten

Arbor Networks, Inc., 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.

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.

The Peakflow SP platform offers an industry-unique combination of macro-level (IP flow) and micro-level (deep packet inspection) analysis to address all network security threats.

Competitive solutions require operators to log-in to multiple devices to address a single security threat.

This creates a cumbersome and inefficient process at a time when split-second decision making is paramount.

TMS streamlines operations and speeds reaction time by providing users with a single console and common user interface for thwarting multiple attacks.

In addition, TMS can reduce operating expenses through simplified provisioning and uncomplicated ongoing maintenance.

Peakflow SP enables service providers to leverage the same solution used for infrastructure visibility and security to deliver new, differentiated, revenue-generating managed services, such as MPLS VPN visibility and DDoS protection.

More than forty of the world’s leading service providers are utilising the Peakflow SP platform to deploy network-based offerings in an easy and scalable way to protect their enterprise customers’ networks from DDoS and other cyber attacks that disrupt corporate networks and business continuity.

In order to optimise the deployment of these services, a service provider can choose from several TMS models.

There are also multiple ways that a TMS device can interface with the network, such as: in-line with fail-safe hardware bypass, BGP off/on ramping, or a SPAN port.

In addition, features such as mitigation templates, auto-mitigation, TMS grouping and statistics all ease the provisioning and operation of these managed DDoS services-which ultimately cuts costs and increases profitability.

Arbor Networks Details
Arbor Networks is a provider of security and network management solutions for global business networks, including more than 70% of the world’s Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today.

Arbor delivers secure service control solutions that both protect global networks from the edge to the core from a host of threats, as well as help customers gain network-wide visibility they can translate into actionable business intelligence to generate new forms of revenue and maintain a competitive advantage.

Arbor’s solutions give customers a single, unified view into their networks’ performance, helping them to quickly detect anomalous behavior, mitigate threats and enforce policy.

Arbor also maintains the world’s first globally scoped threat analysis network - ATLAS - which uses technology embedded in the world’s largest ISP networks to sense and report on comprehensive worldwide threat intelligence
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