Arbor Takes Security Solution to 10G

Arbor Networks Inc. has come out with a new DDoS detection and mitigation system, called the Threat Management Systems 3100 (TMS), which offers 10gbps throughout and more application-level functionality.

This new product is Arbor Networks’ biggest yet, said Rob Malan, co-founder and CTO of Arbor Networks, who noted that the company already offers 1gpbs and 3gbps boxes in this category.

As for the application-level capabilities, the new 10gbps solution offers application-layer attack detection, surgical mitigation and reporting. The TMS also delivers deep packet inspection (DPI) for more than 80 IP services and applications including DNS, HTTP, VoIP, IM and P2P. This DPI functionality leverages the technology Arbor Networks got through its February acquisition of Ellacoya Networks.

“I believe strongly in DPI and moving up the value chain for the carrier,” Malan told xchange. “We did that [Ellacoya deal] because we see a combination of service assurance with security.” By combining the two, he said, service providers need to invest in and manage fewer boxes, he added.

And by tightly integrating TMS into its Peakflow SP platform, Arbor Networks said it 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.”

Malan said there are numerous ways carriers can use these tools, adding it is “universally applicable” across all the various network technologies and services.

Communications market research firm Infonetics Research says in a new report that the worldwide network security appliance and software market is down 4 percent to $1.3 billion from 4Q07 to 1Q08, primarily due to normal seasonal trends.

"Most network security vendors reported some slightly higher than normal sluggishness in North America for 1Q08, primarily among large customers, though most vendors reported that customers didn't plan to decrease spending overall, just delay it slightly. We project a return to very slight growth in the last 3 quarters of 2008, with stronger growth forecast in 2009," said Jeff Wilson principal analyst for network security at Infonetics Research.

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