LEXINGTON, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/24/07 -- Arbor Networks, a leading provider of network security and operational performance for global business networks, announced today that the University of New Mexico has deployed both Arbor's service provider solution, Peakflow SP, and its enterprise solution, Peakflow X, to deliver an unmatched combination of network-wide security, visibility and traffic analysis.

The University of New Mexico is a provider of Internet access to schools across the state of New Mexico. The organization has deployed Peakflow SP to protect this network against security threats such as distributed denial- of-service (DDoS) attacks, botnets and worms, as well as network issues such as traffic and routing instability. Peakflow SP protects more than 70 percent of the world's service provider networks by providing real-time, network-wide anomaly detection and reporting of routing and traffic patterns across the entire network.

"The security and performance of New Mexico's education network impacts every student and educator in the state. We were looking for a solution that would be easily deployed and integrated with our existing technologies and would provide the critical network visibility needed to make informed technology decisions, as well as deliver network-wide security against a range of threats facing today's network operators," said Paul Chang, who manages critical pieces of New Mexico's education infrastructure. "Peakflow SP delivers real-time, network-wide anomaly detection and reporting. Additionally, it helps us understand and visualize the threats on our network, whether they stem from an attack, misconfiguration or the longer-term impact of changes in network utilization."

For the network that connects the campuses of the University of New Mexico itself, it has deployed Peakflow X for its ability to provide unique visibility into user behavior, application usage and threat prevention, protecting the reliability and security of data, applications and services inside the University network. Peakflow X constructs a system-wide view of the entire network, auto-learning host behaviors to determine who talks to whom, and how. In real-time, Peakflow X compares traffic against these baselines to perform network behavior analysis (NBA), an innovative management technique used to identify developing security threats that do not yet have signatures, including virulent "zero day" attacks. These may easily slip by other devices such as intrusion prevention systems and firewalls.

"On the University network, our primary concern was visibility into the Internet usage of our students who are utilizing all the latest technologies such as wireless, instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing," said Kingsavanh Bounkeua, enterprise command center manager at The University of New Mexico. "While these are great new technologies, they present real security issues for network operators. Peakflow X is providing us with on-time network troubleshooting through the use of flow information, delivering unique visibility into user behavior, application usage and threat prevention."

"The University of New Mexico is in a unique situation because they are operating as both a service provider and an enterprise network," said Paul Morville, vice president of product management at Arbor Networks. "The Peakflow products offer an integrated solution to this unique network topology by providing the network-wide visibility needed to optimize network performance and harden their networks from current and future threats."

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks delivers network security and operational performance for global business networks. Arbor's Network Behavioral Analysis (NBA) solutions are based on the Arbor Peakflow platform, providing real-time views of network activity which enable organizations to instantly protect against worms, DDoS attacks, insider misuse, and traffic and routing instability, as well as to segment and harden networks from future threats. Today, Arbor Networks' customer base is comprised of a broad range of service provider and enterprise customers within a variety of industries spanning the globe, demonstrating the depth and breadth of the company's security expertise. All rely on the Arbor Peakflow platform to prevent costly downtime, enable network cleanup and increase customer trust.

To learn more about Arbor Networks, please visit: http://www.arbornetworks.com. 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.

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