Arbor Peakflow 5.5 release for SP and TMS

Arbor Networks is pleased to announce the general availability of the Arbor Peakflow 5.5 release for SP and TMS. This new release augmentsthe industry's leading network-wide infrastructure security and traffic-monitoring platform.

In this release Arbor addresses the number one threat to the adoption of cloud computing today, the availability of services and data, by introducing a standalone version of its Threat Management System (TMS). Until now, Peakflow SP and TMS have been tightly integrated, delivering a unique combination of visibility and real-time attack mitigation. Peakflow TMS is now a standalone appliance purpose-built for rapid deployment and surgical mitigation of DDoS attacks targeting Hosting and Internet Data Center (IDC) infrastructure and customers.

The Peakflow V5.5 release is a feature release that incorporates updates for solving field issues found in previous SP and TMS releases plus many new capabilities and reporting features, including geography-based IP alerting and mitigation when traffic spikes come from unexpected countries, quickly alerting customers to potentially malicious traffic and giving them the ability to block or rate-limit the unexpected traffic. Peakflow SP 5.5's IPv6 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) capabilities deliver enhanced visibility and security as customers transition to the IPv6 protocol. Finally, Peakflow SP 5.5 includes new reporting features on infected host detection and reporting, providing security teams with macro visibility into threats across the network. Lastly, the release introduces support for 4-byte Autonomous Systems Numbers (ASNs).