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Covad Selects Arbor Networks for Network Security and Traffic Engineering

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 09:00 CST

Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, announced today that Covad Communications Group Inc. (AMEX: DVW), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, has deployed the Arbor Peakflow SP system ("Peakflow SP") to enhance its network protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, botnets, worms, and other network vulnerabilities.

Arbor Networks protects more than 70% of the world's service provider networks from security threats such as DDoS attacks, botnets and worms as well as network issues such as traffic and routing instability. Arbor combines pervasive, network-wide visibility with deep applications insight to give customers the business intelligence necessary to protect and manage their networks, and to create and deploy new revenue-generating services.

Peakflow SP proactively detects, traces and mitigates network-wide anomalies and attacks on Covad's network, as well as provides insight and intelligence to enable Covad to make more informed business decisions about routing, transit, partners, customers and quality of service. Covad has also become an active member of the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance (FSA), a global coalition of Arbor's service provider customers that have joined together to help prevent cyber attacks that cross service provider and national boundaries.

"Securing our network and ensuring that it is operating as efficiently as possible is critical in order to deliver the quality of service that our customers have come to expect from Covad," said Dr. Ron Marquardt, chief technology officer for Covad. "Arbor has a unique solution because it leverages the global deployment of Peakflow SP, adds a layer of context and intelligence through its security researchers and brings it all together through the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance for rapid and seamless communications between service providers. The end result is that we are able to collaborate and block network attacks quickly, saving customers and partners thousands of dollars in losses due to security incidents."

"Service providers compete on many fronts, but they cooperate when it comes to effective network security. We created the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance to put in place an automated framework that dramatically speeds time to resolution for our customers," said Paul Morville, Arbor Networks vice president of product management.

For more detail on how Covad is leveraging Arbor Networks' technology in tandem with the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance (FSA), please visit Arbor Networks' website to read the Solution Brief Case Study or to download the podcast and webcast discussions with Dr. Ron Marquardt, Covad's chief technology officer.

About Arbor Networks

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 competitive advantage. Arbor's solutions give customers a single, unified view into their networks' performance, helping them 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.

Note to Editors: Arbor Networks, Peakflow, ATLAS and the Arbor Networks logo are trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc.

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