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Arbor Networks' Peakflow Adds Mitigation And Geography-Based Detection: Page 2 of 2

"It's not just hackerism," said Pigg. "We've seen very focused attacks out of Pakistan, out of China, out of Iran; some have been very thinly veiled government sponsored attacks." Political and protest groups, and competitive rivals are also responsible, according to both Shah and Pigg.

Arbor introduced IPv6 support in last release, but the BGP support will enable service providers that launch IPv6 services to look at Autonomous Systems Numbers (ASNs) to get better visibility into where traffic is coming from. The new release also supports four-byte ASNs, coming into use as the pool of 2-byte ASNs are depleted. The 5.5 release also features infected host detection and infected subscriber reporting.

The stand-alone TMS appliance offers DDoS mitigation without the detection and network analysis capabilities of the Collector Platform (CP) the other major component of Peakflow SP. The most immediate market will be Cisco customers, who are in need of a DDoS mitigation tool since Cisco announced the end of life for its Guard product.

In addition, Shah, said, some ISPs use their own detection methods or know that certain customers are frequently under attack and need to deploy mitigation. Smaller online properties might just want TMS to respond when they are under attack.

The ability to deploy TMS mitigation technology rapidly is a plus for Arbor as well, said Yankee's Pigg. "The customer rolls of Arbor are littered with 'let's close the barn door customers," she said. "Customers come to them when under attack or they have just suffered attack. They want something that can quickly be implemented while they look for something more comprehensive."