Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network security and management solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, and Alcatel-Lucent, announced the establishment of a new Proof of Concept (POC) Laboratory in Singapore for communications service providers to conduct testing of technologies to mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Earlier this year, Arbor Networks and Alcatel-Lucent announced the integration of Arbor’s Threat Management System (TMS) DDoS mitigation software into the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) family in order to help communications service providers counter the growing threat of DDOS attacks and ensuring the integrity of their networks and cloud services. By integrating Arbor’s TMS software into Alcatel-Lucent’s IP routers – wherever they are located in a given network – attacks can be detected and dealt with at the edge of the cloud, closer to the location of the attack, which is a much more effective and less costly approach.
In addition to making service providers’ cloud networks and services more resilient, this new solution also enables them to offer a cloud-based service to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks on the networks of their enterprise customers. This represents a lucrative revenue opportunity because many businesses do not have the in-house ability or resources to keep up with this rapidly escalating threat. Service providers can deliver denial-of-service ‘scrubbing’ as a cloud-based service from the same platform as virtual private network (VPN) and business Internet services, with minimal incremental investment.
The POC Laboratory gives customers the ability to see live demonstrations of this integrated technology, as well as to test various DDoS attacks and techniques, allowing customers to conduct POC trials to better understand the technologies and best practices for DDoS mitigation.
Kent Wong, VP of IP Sales Support Center, Asia Pacific with Alcatel-Lucent said: “DDoS attacks are a growing problem for service providers and enterprises alike. Our partnership with Arbor Networks opens up a number of deployment scenarios and network configuration options for our customers. Given the interest we have seen in this integrated solution, we see the test lab as an important tool to help customers understand what this integration means and how they can benefit from it in practice.”
Attley Ng, VP and GM for Asia Pacific with Arbor Networks, said: “This is a first-of-its-kind partnership for Arbor Networks and we are very pleased with the results so far. Arbor has deep relationships with the service provider community and we understand the complex challenges they face, from securing their own networks, to delivering security services to protect their customer networks. Bringing DDoS mitigation to the edge of the network gives providers greater flexibility to reduce transit costs and backhaul costs, as well as the ability to launch revenue-generating managed security services for enterprise customers.”
