World’s Most Comprehensive Internet Monitoring
NEWS RELEASE
Arbor Networks Unveils the
World’s Most Comprehensive Internet Monitoring
System
ATLAS Now Delivers Real-Time, Globally Scoped Intelligence into Security, Routing and Traffic Trends
March 10, 2009
News
Facts
* Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider
of secure service control solutions for global business
networks, today unveiled the next-generation ATLAS Internet
monitoring system which has been enhanced to look beyond
security-related events. ATLAS now includes real-time
global Internet traffic, routing and application
information.
* This added layer of business intelligence
will better arm service providers to deliver new, secure,
revenue-generating services.
* In the past two years,
Arbor Networks has improved and extended its ability to
gather real-time business intelligence data designed to help
service provider customers understand not just the malicious
traffic traversing their networks but the impact of global
Internet events (i.e. traffic floods, application trends) on
their business. As a result, Arbor can provide comprehensive
visibility that improves business decisions about peering
relationships, capacity planning, markets, services and
network management.
Key ATLAS Highlights
* ATLAS is a collaborative effort with 100+ ISPs:
Arbor has been a pioneer in developing innovative
industry initiatives that facilitate cross-provider
collaboration and information sharing. The massive ATLAS
data set was made possible because of Arbor’s reputation
as a trusted third party among the global service provider
community. All participating ISPs have agreed to share
anonymous traffic data on an hourly basis. Through Arbor’s
Peakflow SP and eSeries deployments, customers are sharing
anonymised data about their networks that is aggregated into
the ATLAS system, analysed by Arbor’s world-renowned
security research team and then shared among Arbor’s
service provider customers.
* ATLAS is more than a
security monitoring platform, it’s a business intelligence
tool: The Arbor products that make up the heart of the
ATLAS system have been refined and expanded to provide more
real-time intelligence about peering relationships, capacity
planning, routing, network management, applications, new
services and markets. These new capabilities are now
reflected in the real-time, actionable intelligence that
ATLAS delivers to Arbor’s ISP customers.
* No
other entity today has aggregated this much real-time
information about Internet traffic trends: With a
truly unique data set, ATLAS data includes:
o Over 3
Terabits per second of Internet transit traffic monitored
and reported
o 1 million+ unique IPv4 Internet
addresses monitored for globally routed dark IP
addresses
o 31 GB of global darknet traffic is analysed
daily
o Global dark IP route coverage is spread across
North America, Europe and Japan
o 75+ ISPs are sharing
all real-time attack data with Arbor
o 30+ ISPs are
sharing full real-time routing data
o 55 ISPs are
participating in the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance
(FSA)
Supporting Quotes from Craig Labovitz, Chief
Scientist, Arbor Networks
* “The combination of
Ellacoya’s products with our own Peakflow solutions over
the course of this past year has enabled us to detect and
mitigate the full range of network-based attacks, extending
protection from the service provider core down to the
broadband edge. With this new iteration of ATLAS, we are in
a unique position to answer important questions about the
growth of the Internet across geographic regions, the
popularity of applications and services, and emerging attack
vector trends.”
* “With ATLAS, we are proud to
once again raise the bar for inter-provider communication
and collaboration by extending the information gathered in
ATLAS beyond security-related events to include real-time
global routing information. Given the increasingly
competitive nature of our ISP customers’ businesses,
having this added business intelligence is crucial to
maintaining a competitive edge.”
Supporting
Quote from Gray Williams, GM Managed Security
Services, TATA Communications
* “ATLAS is
an important component of the Tata Communications' global
security intelligence platform. ATLAS offers a unique and
diverse data set that helps augment Tata Communications'
view of Internet traffic trends beyond its own global
network assets, thereby enhancing the value of its Managed
Security Services platform for its customers and resellers
alike."
Supporting Quote from Ken Haertling, Chief
Security Officer at TELUS Business Transformation Technology
Operations
* "With a real-time view of potential
Internet threats we can make more informed network
management and security decisions. Because ATLAS aggregates
data from so many ISPs all over the world, we are given
actionable intelligence that not only provides us with a
competitive advantage but allows us to fight back against
botnets, denial of service attacks and other malicious
Internet activity."
Supporting Quote from Phil
Sykes, Managing Director with Nextgen Networks
*
“Nextgen Networks has deployed Arbor technology to monitor
Internet traffic and applications in real-time, which is key
to effective management of our Internet service operations.
Additionally, the capability of the equipment is being
further leveraged to establish a range of new value added
service features. The Arbor solution provides us with
actionable intelligence that improves business decisions
around capacity planning, selection of content partners and
optimal peering relationships.”
Supporting
Quote from Adrian van Hest, GM DMZ Global,
TelstraClear
* “With ATLAS aggregating data from
so many ISPs all over the world, we are given real
information that allows us to fight back against botnets,
denial of service attacks and other malicious internet
activity. ATLAS data delivers visibility far beyond our own
network infrastructure and provides us with a truly global
view of Internet traffic and trends.”
Relevant
Links:
Arbor Networks Blog Post: http://asert.arbornetworkscom/atlas2
Arbor Networks Feeds:
Arbor Networks News
About Arbor Networks
Arbor
Networks is a leading provider of security and network
management solutions for global business networks, including
more than 70 percent of the world’s Internet service
providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use
today. Arbor’s secure service control solutions give
customers a single, unified view into their networks’
performance, helping them to quickly detect anomalous
behaviour, mitigate threats and enforce policy. This
translates into actionable business intelligence to generate
new forms of revenue and to maintain a competitive
advantage.
Arbor also maintains ATLAS – a unique collaborative effort with 100+ service providers across the globe sharing real-time security, traffic and routing information. No other entity today has both aggregated this much real-time information about what is happening across the Internet and developed the means for cross-provider collaboration that informs numerous business decisions.
For technical insight into the latest security threats and Internet traffic trends, please visit the ASERT blog.
Note to Editors: Arbor Networks, Peakflow, ATLAS and the Arbor Networks logo are trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brand names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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