ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Forum has announced that Farnam Jahanian, co-founder of Arbor Networks and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, has been named NEF Entrepreneur of the Year.

If you’ve noticed that your late-night Web browsing tends to move a bit slower than normal, there may well be a good explanation.

The last couple of weeks have been a bit tumultuous for Twitter, which after being kicked offline last week during an attack, found yet another security problem.

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Arbor Networks, a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, said today that U.K.-based service provider PlusNet has deployed the Arbor eSeries broadband optimization solutions to deliver tiered services to their customers.