Improving network availability with edge-to-edge security and visibility

It’s a challenging new world for today’s service provider. With network attacks escalating to the multi-gigabit level, service availability is emerging as the #1 priority. And with customers demanding wireless and mobile access to multi-service converged networks, new layers of complexity are obstructing visibility across the network infrastructure. Meanwhile, bottom-line pressure intensifies as a crowded competitive arena transforms bandwidth into a commodity and requires service providers to differentiate themselves via new managed services.

More than 70 percent of the world’s leading service providers rely on Arbor Peakflow SP to defend their networks against potentially lethal attacks, gain edge-to-edge visibility and maximize service availability. Designed for carrier-class networks, Peakflow SP also provides an easy, scalable way of introducing profitable new managed services.

With Arbor solutions, service providers benefit from:

• Edge-to-edge, cost-effective security and visibility extending from the peering edge and backbone clear to the customer aggregation edge.
• Comprehensive threat management to proactively detect, analyze and classify network-wide anomalies such as DDoS attacks, botnets, worms and other threats.
• Surgical mitigation of threats without impacting legitimate traffic and business services.
• Increased availability by gaining a clear, network-wide view of operational issues, such as traffic and routing instability, that can reduce uptime and quality of service.
• Improved traffic engineering and capacity planning to increase the performance and lower the cost of networking infrastructures.
• Next-generation managed services such as DDoS detection/mitigation, MPLS VPN visibility/security and other revenue-generating services.
• Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS), the world’s first globally scoped threat analysis service — used to protect network infrastructures and has the potential for managed information security services.
• Fingerprint Sharing Alliance (FSA), the first-and-only global coalition of service providers sharing attack profiles without revealing competitive information.