Arbor Networks Releases Peakflow SP 5.0 with Fingerprint Sharing Features

Arbor Networks, a provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, has announced version 5.0 of Arbor Peakflow SP network-wide infrastructure security and traffic monitoring platform. The new version includes enhanced security features and reporting capabilities, including fingerprint sharing.

 

The new Peakflow SP 5500 features ATLAS-enabled fingerprint creation, alerting and mitigation; deeper visibility into the performance and security of business critical applications; and enhanced reporting capabilities. According to Arbor Networks officials, the new platform offers nearly double the performance and scalability of the previous version.

 

Arbor, along with its service provider customers, has created a large distributed darknet sensor network. This, along with the anonymized traffic data from its customer network, forms the core of ATLAS Internet monitoring system. With the help of the ATLAS data, Arbor’s security researchers have developed a globally scoped view of malicious traffic traversing the backbone networks.

 

With ATLAS-enabled traffic monitoring, Arbor delivers intelligence about malware, exploits, phishing and botnets. This information is collected, analyzed and fed back to customers via fingerprints, or network behavioral patterns of attacks. Arbor claims that they are the first to aggregate this much real-time information on the Internet and developed the means for fully integrated threat detection and mitigation.

 

According to Dennis Brouwer, vice president, Global Network Solutions (News - Alert) at Savvis, Peakflow SP 500 delivers enhanced visibility and protection to their critical network and hosting services. Not only are these important technical capabilities, but they also save time and staffing resources. Its improved peering analysis and reporting result in significant cost savings and network optimization.

 

One of the advantages of Peakflow SP is that it allows service providers to utilize the same solution for infrastructure visibility and security to deliver new, differentiated, revenue-generating managed services such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) visibility and distributed denial of service (DdoS) managed security services, officials said.

 

Service providers see this service as a new revenue opportunity and are aggressively marketing clean pipes services to their enterprise customers. With Peakflow SP solutions, Arbor enables service providers to deliver these security services by leveraging existing investments in Arbor technology.

 

Arbor Networks claims that it protects more than 70 percent of the world’s service provider networks from security threats such as DDoS attacks, botnets and worms, as well as network issues such as traffic and routing instability.

 

Arbor Networks had signed a definitive agreement in January 2008 to acquire Ellacoya Networks (News - Alert), a provider of carrier-class broadband service optimization solutions.