Arbor Networks Strengthens Its Flagship Availability Solution, Peakflow DoS.

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001

Knowledge Gained Through Service Provider Deployments Fuels New

Features And Management Capabilities

Arbor Networks, a provider of availability solutions, today announced that a new version of its flagship solution, Peakflow(TM) DoS, is generally available. Peakflow DoS transforms complex network data into meaningful and actionable information that customers can use to counter availability threats. Leveraging feedback from the industry's only end-to-end, production network installations, the latest version of Peakflow DoS simplifies deployment in diverse, distributed environments while adding reporting features to provide greater customer insight.

Evaluations of Peakflow DoS, which detects and traces availability threats, such as distributed Denial of Service attacks, and then recommends filters to counter them, are underway at twenty organizations, including large enterprises, hosting and service providers, government agencies, and content providers. For example, Peakflow DoS has been deployed at Stargate, a large regional service provider, since January of this year.

"We are committed to providing our customers with the highest level of network availability," said Jonathan Rosenson, director of strategic initiatives for Stargate, which provides connectivity to several thousand organizations across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland. "We deployed beta versions of Peakflow DoS at the beginning of the year and have since worked closely with Arbor engineers to integrate subsequent versions of Peakflow DoS into our environment. We're thrilled that our engineers' feedback is helping create an even more robust and effective solution that improves network availability by effectively addressing growing threats like DoS attacks."

The industry's first end-to-end DoS protection deployment, the Peakflow DoS installation at MichNet, recently had its first anniversary. MichNet served as a test bed for the development of Peakflow DoS, the beta version of which went live on their production network in August 2000. MichNet is the statewide network of Merit Network, Michigan's largest regional Internet service provider, which provides Internet connectivity to more than 350 organizations. Peakflow DoS resides at MichNet's major peering points for high traffic ISPs such as Cable & Wireless, Qwest and Internet2/Abilene, enabling MichNet to proactively share information on network threats with their peering partners and customers.

Key new features of Peakflow DoS include different views of anomaly data. "We've taken what began as a pure network engineering tool and added views of the data that provide business-level insight," said Paul Morville, senior product manager at Arbor Networks. For example, network engineers will benefit from better data visualization through graphs that allow them to visually analyze anomaly data provided by Peakflow DoS. Managers, who require a higher-level view of data across time, will now be equipped with summary reports.

Peakflow DoS also gains additional data collection and deployment flexibility through a new collector, which passively collects network data independent of equipment type. "Our focus on interoperability led us to build an agnostic solution that can either leverage Cisco Netflow data or, for customers who use other gear, capture raw packets and analyze that data," said Morville. "The bottom line is that we work with what customers already have."

In addition, Peakflow DoS will provide streamlined configuration management and improved committed access rate and access control list generation, enabling engineers to apply more targeted filters.

Pricing for Peakflow DoS depends on the number of devices required, but starts at approximately $130,000 for an enterprise deployment. Arbor Networks is currently in talks with several service providers to enable small- to mid-size enterprises to purchase DoS protection as a managed availability service, starting at $5,000 per month. Sales inquiries can be directed to 781.684.0900 or [e-mail].

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks builds innovative availability solutions for companies whose success depends on highly available and fully optimized networks. Arbor Networks' flagship solution, Peakflow(TM) DoS, is a distributed, non-intrusive, scalable solution that detects, traces and filters DoS attacks and other availability threats. Arbor Networks' patent-pending technology is based on three years of pioneering research in the availability, reliability and security of networks and distributed systems, conducted at the University of Michigan by Arbor Networks founders. Headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with research and development facilities in Ann Arbor, Mich., Arbor Networks is funded by Battery Ventures and Cisco Systems. Arbor Networks has been recognized as one of the top ten startups to watch in 2001 by Red Herring and Network World. For more information, contact Arbor Networks at 781.684.0900 or at www.arbornetworks.com.

Copyright (c) 2001 Arbor Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Arbor Networks, the Arbor Networks logo, Peakflow and the Peakflow DoS logo, and ArbOS are trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.