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Arbor expands & upgrades Atlas threat monitoring network
Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 10 March 2009 03:10
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Nick Race, Arbor's country manager for Australia and New Zealand, told ExchangeDaily: "for example the inauguration of Barack Obama looked just like a DDOS attack because so many people were trying to watch it on line. Atlas was able to identify this traffic as being legitimate and ISPs were able to configure their networks to handle it."Australia's Nextgen Networks has been named as one of the 100 customers of Atlas 2.0 and according to CEO Phil Sykes the Arbor equipment installed in its network, is being exploited 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," Sykes said.
TelstraClear is also a customer and Adrian van Hest, GM DMZ Global, said: "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."
Ellacoya technology a key component
Race said that much of the additional functionality incorporated in ATLAS 2.0 had come from deep packet inspection specialist Ellacoya Networks, a company acquired by Arbor in early 2008. According to Arbor Networks' chief scientist, Craig Labovitz, "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."
He added: "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."
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