Arbor Networks Forms to Address Proliferating Availability Threats Faced By Web Content, Hosting Providers.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Battery Ventures, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Lead $11 Million First Round Investment in Innovative Network Services Provider; ISPs Hail Arbor Networks' Distributed Technology An innovative early stage company specializing in managed availability services, Arbor Networks, has formed to help ensure that the Internet infrastructure supporting web content and service providers offers the highest level of availability, efficiency and security. The company launches one year after many of the world's most heavily trafficked web sites experienced devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. denial of service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. (DoS) attacks. Arbor Networks has received $11 million in Series A financing from two blue chip funding partners, Battery Ventures and Cisco Systems, Inc. Arbor Networks' technology, which is currently being deployed and tested by several ISPs and web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. providers, was developed at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . Arbor Networks was co-founded by chief scientist Farnam Jahanian and chief technology officer G. Robert Malan, who developed Arbor Networks' patent-pending technology during the past three years based on research funding Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of both "hard" science and technology and social science. The term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and from Cisco, Intel and DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. . Joining the company's executive team as chief strategist is Ted Julian, founder and former vice president of marketing at @stake, the leading provider of Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. consulting services. Before @stake, Julian was the lead security analyst at Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"Network availability and security provide the foundation for any organization doing business on the Internet," said Todd Dagres, general partner, Battery Ventures. "Arbor Networks is defining the critical new category of managed network availability services, the first of which is 'bullet-proof' distributed DoS protection. Battery Ventures sees tremendous growth potential in Arbor Networks based on its early leadership position, compelling technical advantage, the deep knowledge of its founding team, and the tremendous demand among Internet-centric businesses for distributed solutions that eliminate threats to network availability and performance." "Security is one of the most important issues in the Internet Economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. ," said Mike Volpi, senior vice president, chief strategy officer, Cisco Systems. "This announcement underscores Cisco's commitment to make the Internet a secure environment for anyone conducting business over the Internet and help companies maintain the availability of their networks in the face of DoS and other threats to network availability." Arbor Networks' Market Opportunity International Data Corporation forecasts that the operational services segment of the U.S. Networked Infrastructure Management Services market will grow from a base of $6.7 billion in 2000 to 12.9 billion in 2004 (IDC's, "Worldwide Networked Infrastructure Management Services Forecast and Analysis, 1999-2004"). Initially, Arbor will focus on preventing distributed DoS attacks such as the those that crippled Yahoo!, eBay and others, and which highlight the need to manage system availability. "Uptime is a critical criterion that differentiates ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. offerings," said Chris Christiansen, program vice president, Internet Infrastructure and Security Software, at IDC. "Ensuring broad network availability in the face of today's distributed threats requires a distributed solution that works at the core of service provider's networks, not just at the edge. Arbor's distributed approach leverages the existing infrastructure, which makes it easy for ISPs and web hosters to deploy, enabling new value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services." Arbor Networks' Technology Arbor Networks offers a distributed, non-intrusive, and complete managed service that proactively and in real-time, monitors, detects, traces, and filters threats to network availability. Purpose-built for carrier-class networks, Arbor's innovative solution generates detailed information about network anomalies to speed remediation with other web hosts and other service providers. Based on a fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. architecture, Arbor's system protects not only the edge of the network, but also the network core. As a result, Arbor's solution addresses not only Web site attacks but also threats to routers and other components of the Internet infrastructure. Arbor Networks' tracing technology allows service providers to determine the source of an attack - whether a peer ISP, a customer link, a web host, or a collocated customer. By continuously sampling network traffic statistics, Arbor's technology establishes a dynamic profile of typical traffic patterns in different zones of the network. Sampling against this dynamic baseline allows the solution to flag anomalies. Once an anomaly is flagged, it is compared against Arbor's proprietary attack signature database to detect known attacks. If a match is not found, patent-pending technology analyzes anomaly parameters to pinpoint previously unseen, but nonetheless malicious activity. Finally Arbor's solution suggests an anomaly-specific filter to remediate the threat at the affected peering points. Service Providers Applaud Arbor Networks' Technology Five months ago, Michigan's largest regional Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , Merit Network, Inc., which provides Internet connectivity to more than 350 organizations, deployed Arbor Networks' innovative technology across its statewide network, MichNet. The Arbor solution analyzes, traces, and filters potential threats to MichNet's network availability, performance and security. "Arbor Networks has provided MichNet with a comprehensive distributed DoS and managed availability solution that allows us to control and manage distributed threats and disruptions," said Jeff Ogden, Associate Director at Merit. "Their offering, which resides at our major peering points for high traffic ISPs like Cable & Wireless, Qwest and Internet2/Abilene, was rapidly deployed across our network with no major re-configuration required. Arbor's DoS protection also allows MichNet to dynamically share information on potential threats or anomalies with our peering partners and customers in real-time, delivering further protection to our customers." About Battery Ventures Battery Ventures is one of the world's largest venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] specializing in early stage technology investments. Its investments include Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Allegiance Telecom, @stake, Fore Systems See Marconi. , InfoSeek, Nextel, Pixelworks and Qtera. With a team of over 50 experienced professionals, Battery leverages its bandwidth, industry expertise, and capital to actively guide emerging technology companies to category dominance. Since 1983, the firm has invested worldwide in over 130 companies across the communications, software and Internet/e-commerce industries. From its offices in Wellesley, MA and San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , CA, the partnership manages over $1.8 billion in committed capital. About Arbor Networks Arbor Networks provides a distributed, non-intrusive and complete managed availability service that allows firms to protect their greatest asset: the availability of their customers' sites. Arbor's solutions detect, trace, and block threats to network availability, improving network uptime, performance and security, while lowering operational costs for web content and service providers. Arbor's patent-pending technology is based on three years of pioneering research in the availability, reliability and security of networks and distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , conducted at the University of Michigan by Arbor founders. Headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with development facilities in Ann Arbor, Mich., Arbor is funded by Battery Ventures, a leading venture capital firm, and Cisco Systems, Inc. For more information, contact Arbor Networks at 781-684-0900 or at www.arbornetworks.com. |
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