Arbor Networks is a

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founded in 2000"Arbor Networks, Inc."
''BusinessWeek''. Retrieved June 26, 2010. and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, which sells

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and

network monitoring Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitori ...

software, used – according to the company's claims – by over 90% of all

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s. The company's products are used to protect networks from

denial-of-service attack In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host conn ...

botnet A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots. Botnets can be used to perform Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, steal data, send spam, and allow the attacker to access the device and its conn ...

s, computer worms, and efforts to disable network routers. The service employs

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from the

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146.88.240.0/24 in which threats are being detected.

History

The company was founded in 2000 when co-founders Farnam Jahanian and Rob Malan spun out research from the

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, sponsored by

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, and

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

.http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~farnam/Jahanian-vita-2007.pdf Farnam Jahanian curriculum vitae. Retrieved September 29, 2017. They were joined by students Jonathan Arnold, Matthew Smart, and Jonathan Poland, and entrepreneurs Ted Julian and Dug Song to make the founding team. The company raised $11 million in a round of

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. Later, in August 2002, the company raised another $22 million in a second round of venture capital, led by Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, with participants that included

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and

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, among others."Arbor Networks lands $22M in funding"
''Boston Business Journal''. Retrieved June 26, 2010. In January 2008, Arbor acquired Ellacoya Networks, a company which provides

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traffic shaping products. The acquisition was expected to increase the

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(TAM) for Arbor to $750 million in 2008, and to $1.5 billion by the end of 2009. In March 2009, Arbor worked with 100 ISPs to create a new network monitoring system, called ATLAS 2.0. In October 2009, the company estimated that

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paid almost nothing for

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's bandwidth, noting that Google probably used

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instead to run the website."YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net"
''Wired''. Retrieved June 26, 2010. On August 31, 2010, Tektronix Communications announced that it has completed its acquisition of Arbor Networks. Upon completion of the acquisition, Arbor Networks joins Danaher Corporation's portfolio of communications and enterprise companies, which includes Tektronix Communications."Tektronix Communications Completes Acquisition of Arbor Networks".
''Reuters''. Retrieved January 15, 2011. On September 3, 2013, Arbor Networks announced that it had acquired privately held Packetloop, a leader in Security Analytics based in Sydney, Australia.
''Marketwired''. Retrieved September 3, 2013.

Company

Arbor has strategic partnerships with

, IBM, and

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. In addition to its headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company also has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan,

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, and

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. ''

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'' stated that due to the popularity of Arbor's software among ISPs, the company "likely knows more about the nternet'sebbs and flows than anyone outside of the

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". Arbor is now part of

NetScout Systems NetScout Systems, Inc. (stylized as NETSCOUT) is a provider of application performance management and network performance management products located in Westford, Massachusetts. In July 2015, NetScout acquired the communications business of Dana ...

as part of the acquisition of Fluke, Tektronix Communications (TekComms) and VSS in 2015 from Danaher.

References

External links

Official website

Packetloop website
{{Tektronix Networking companies American companies established in 2000 Danaher subsidiaries Tektronix DDoS mitigation companies Software companies established in 2000