Cisco and Arbor Networks are partnering to deliver industry-leading DDoS mitigation capabilities on the ASR 9000 Series routers. This partnership extends the Peakflow solution by adding the Threat Management System (TMS) DDoS mitigation functionality to the ASR 9000.

Cisco and Arbor Networks have collaborated to bring industry-leading distributed denial-of-service mitigation capabilities on the Cisco® ASR 9000 Series routers. This collaboration extends the Arbor Peakflow Threat Management System DDoS mitigation functions to the ASR 9000.

DDoS mitigation requires visibility, analytics, and security expertise. Service providers have tremendous insight into network activities, and so should not simply manage purpose-built DDoS mitigation solutions, but should leverage their insight to better identify attacks.

Cisco ASR 9000 virtual DDoS (vDDoS) protection defends your network against DDoS attacks by embedding Arbor Networks DDoS detection and mitigation technology into your Cisco network.

With its thorough, forward-looking vision and comprehensive approach to enabling deployment of functions in flexible combinations with prominent ecosystem partners, F5 has shown itself well-prepared to help operators accelerate their transition to virtualized network services.