Arbor Networks

London, England, January 26th, 2011 – Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of security and network management solutions for converged carrier networks and next-generation data centers, announced today that their Peakflow product family is powering the DDoS mitigation service of Continent 8 Technologies, a leading supplier of data center services to the e-gaming industry. The announcement coincides with ICE, the International Casino Exhibition at Earls Court in London.

Continent 8 Technologies operates Internet Data Centers (IDC) in three continents, with five strategically located data centers and linked together over a significant private global network. They offer redundant, low-latency, reliably managed bandwidth and advanced managed services, including denial of service protection and mitigation powered by Arbor Networks.

"With our focus on the eGaming industry, we know that our customers are frequent targets of denial of service attacks. Any disruption to availability can have a negative impact on their business, from lost revenue to damaged reputations in a very competitive marketplace," said John Stone, chief technology officer at Continent 8 Technologies. "When it comes to understanding the DDoS problem and delivering the means to identify and mitigate attacks in real-time, without interrupting services, Arbor Networks is the clear choice. Their comprehensive solution enables us to offer a mission critical service to our customers."

"Today’s IDC requires intelligent DDoS mitigation security solutions that can simultaneously protect network infrastructure, IP-based services and data—all of which are vulnerable to attacks or compromise," said Rob Malan, Arbor Networks chief technology officer. "Traditional security solutions like firewalls and IPS/IDS simply cannot address the issue of availability in the modern data center. In light of the growth in application-layer DDoS attacks, such devices may actually lower the overall security postures of operators by acting as stateful DDoS chokepoints—rendering networks more susceptible to both deliberate and inadvertent DDoS attacks." Arbor’s Peakflow SP platform delivers a fully integrated, carrier-class solution for the detection and surgical mitigation of both volumetric DDoS, application-layer attacks and also from internal threats like malicious insiders and compromised hosts. Arbor’s Peakflow SP platform delivers three pillars of protection for Internet Data Center (IDC) operators:

• Network Infrastructure Protection: Detect and stop DDoS attacks that impact network infrastructure and core IP services.
• Application/Service Protection: Ensure the security, availability and performance of the data center’s applications and services.
• Data Protection: Assure data is not being accessed or removed by unauthorized persons.

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About Arbor Networks
Arbor Networks is a leading provider of network security and management solutions for converged carrier networks and next-generation data centers, including more than 70 percent of the world’s Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. Arbor’s secure service control solutions give customers a single, unified view into their networks’ performance, helping them to quickly detect anomalous behavior, mitigate threats and enforce policy. This translates into actionable business intelligence to generate new forms of revenue and to maintain a competitive advantage.

Arbor also maintains ATLAS – a unique collaborative effort with 100+ service providers across the globe sharing real-time security, traffic and routing information. No other entity today has both aggregated this much real-time information about what is happening across the Internet and developed the means for cross-provider collaboration that informs numerous business decisions.

For technical insight into the latest security threats and Internet traffic trends, please visit arbornetworks.com

Note to Editors: Arbor Networks, Peakflow, ATLAS and the Arbor Networks logo are trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brand names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

About Continent 8 Technologies
Continent 8 Technologies is focused on the delivery of market-defining Internet technologies, products and services for the global online gaming industry; providing companies with secure, reliable facilities from which to host their online operations.

Continent 8 Technologies provides co-location and a comprehensive array of services including Distributed Denial of Service protection, Secure Networks, Disaster Recovery and Content Delivery.

With data centres in the Isle of Man, France, Singapore, Malta and Kahnawake, linked by our Global Private Network, Continent 8 Technologies is the award-winning provider of choice to the online gaming and media industries.