Arbor Networks

Improving network availability with edge-to-edge security, network performance monitoring and visibility

It’s a challenging new world for today’s service provider. Network attacks are escalating to the multi-gigabit levels. Bandwidth is being consumed faster than expected due to P2P and video applications. Customers are demanding fixed and mobile access to multi-service converged networks. Meanwhile, bottom-line pressure is intensifying as a crowded competitive arena transforms bandwidth into a commodity—requiring providers to differentiate themselves via new managed services.

Address the challenges and drive down costs

Today, a majority of the world’s leading service providers rely on Arbor network security solutions to meet these challenges. That’s because Arbor solutions enable providers to defend multi-service converged networks against potentially lethal attacks, ensure intelligent bandwidth management, gain core-to-customer edge visibility and maximize network infrastructures and IP services – all of which yield significant cost reductions.

Ramp up revenue and profitability

Designed for carrier-class networks, Arbor products also allow providers to increase top-line revenue by providing an easy and scalable way to introduce profitable new managed services. Examples of the Arbor-based services now being offered by many providers are DDoS protection, IP VPN security and customized quota/usage-based billing.

Product features and benefits

Arbor Networks has two main product families: Arbor Peakflow and Arbor eSeries.

The Arbor Peakflow family consists of the Arbor Peakflow SP and Arbor Peakflow X platforms for network-wide security and traffic monitoring. Arbor Peakflow offers the following features and benefits:

• Pervasive network visibility and security from the peering edge, through the backbone and clear to the customer aggregation edge of the provider’s network.
• Cost-effective network monitoring by leveraging the IP flow technology already embedded in the network infrastructure.
• 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 using Peakflow SP Threat Management System (TMS) devices.
• 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 network 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, which protects network infrastructures and offers the potential for managed information security services.

The Arbor eSeries family consists of the e100 platform for broadband service optimization. The eSeries solution provides the following features and benefits:

• Industry-leading deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, enabling insight into application and subscriber traffic.
• Scalable, carrier-class design to handle the traffic and demands of today’s largest broadband networks and scale from 1-10 Gbps and 12,000-500,000 subscribers.
• Centralized management and reporting to ensure an efficient approach to network management and reporting.
• In-line/full-line rate deployment options, allowing network operators to manage bandwidth in accordance with network usage policies or application types (such as HTTP, P2P and video).
• Flexible API for back-office integration, enabling back-office systems to provision subscribers, manage quotas and collect detailed usage information.
• Integrated suite of software options for effective analysis and reporting, bandwidth management, service plan management and quota-based or tiered billing services.