CHELMSFORD, MA--(Marketwire - November 24, 2008) - Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, announced today that Arcor, Germany's second-largest fixed-line telecommunications company, has deployed the Arbor Peakflow SP platform ("Peakflow SP") to enhance its network-wide visibility and protection against network threats such as botnets and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, as well as to deliver a "clean pipes" managed service to enterprise customers.

Peakflow SP is delivering the pervasive network visibility, deep application insight and comprehensive threat management Arcor needs to identify, report and surgically mitigate DDoS and zero-day threats before they impact critical business services. Arcor is also using Peakflow SP for traffic engineering to improve network performance and to deliver revenue generating managed DDoS detection and mitigation services to customers.

"We are particularly pleased to have a customer like Arcor, who uses our innovative IP flow and DPI technologies to achieve both network transparency at the macro level and application transparency at the micro level," said Michael Tullius, Arbor's territory manager for Germany and Switzerland.

About Arbor Networks, Inc.

Arbor Networks is a leading provider of security and network management solutions for global business networks, including more than 70 percent of the world's Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. Arbor delivers secure service control solutions that both protect global networks from the edge to the core from a host of threats, as well as help customers gain network-wide visibility they can translate into actionable business intelligence to generate new forms of revenue and maintain a competitive advantage. Arbor's solutions give customers a single, unified view into their networks' performance, helping them to quickly detect anomalous behavior, mitigate threats and enforce policy. Arbor also maintains the world's first globally scoped threat analysis network -- ATLAS -- which uses technology embedded in the world's largest ISP networks to sense and report on comprehensive worldwide threat intelligence.

To learn more about Arbor Networks, please visit: http://www.arbornetworks.com. To learn more about ATLAS, please visit: http://atlas.arbor.net. To learn more about the Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) -- the company's security research arm -- please visit the ASERT blog: http://asert.arbornetworks.com.

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