Arbor Networks has announced several enhancements to its DDoS mitigation portfolio for enterprise and service provider networks that enable customers to better manage the increasing size and complexity of modern DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cInnovation is the lifeblood of Arbor Networks and has been since our founding in 2000 following a DARPA grant. With Cloud Signalling, we\u2019ve created a fast and automated way to connect the enterprise premise with the service provider cloud. This multi-layered approach championed by Arbor is today the de facto best practice for DDoS defence. We\u2019re constantly evolving our defences to keep ahead of the attackers who rightly view availability as the lifeblood of the modern business,\u201d says Eric Jackson,\u00a0Vice President of Product Management at Arbor Networks.<\/em><\/p>\n Scaling mitigation capacity to meet DDoS attack growth<\/strong><\/p>\n Driven by the use of reflection\/amplification techniques, the size of DDoS attacks is growing at a phenomenal rate. According to Arbor\u2019s annual worldwide infrastructure security report, 500Gbps was the largest attack reported by respondents in 2015, a 50X increase over the past decade. DDoS attacks today target not just connection bandwidth, but multiple devices that make up your existing security infrastructure, such as Firewall\/IPS devices, as well as a wide variety of applications that the business relies on, like HTTP, HTTPS, VoIP, DNS and SMTP. At a time when businesses are more reliant than ever on the availability of websites, online services and applications, DDoS protection is a fundamental aspect of business continuity.<\/p>\n Arbor Networks TMS<\/strong><\/p>\n A new high capacity solution, the Arbor TMS HD1000, is a 2U appliance capable of supporting up to 160Gbps of mitigation at the lowest cost per gigabit in the Arbor portfolio. The Arbor TMS HD1000 allows network operators to save finite mitigation capacity through IPv6 rate limiting and automatically offloading traffic to the network using BGP Blackhole mitigation methods.<\/p>\n Arbor also announced 100 Gigabit Ethernet support on the TMS 5000 mitigation platform.\u00a0 The broadly deployed TMS 5000 can now be used with up to four 100G Ethernet ports, resulting in more efficient connectivity for carrying mitigation and clean traffic compared to legacy 10G links.<\/p>\n