Arbor Networks
{{Infobox company
| name = Arbor Networks
| logo = Arbor Networks logo.png
| logo_size = 150px
| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Software
| foundation = {{start date|2000}}
| hq_location = Chelmsford, MA
| website = [https://www.netscout.com/arbor netscout.com/arbor]
}}
Arbor Networks is a software company founded in 2000[https://web.archive.org/web/20090615190252/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=694771 "Arbor Networks, Inc."]. BusinessWeek. Retrieved June 26, 2010. and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, which sells network security and network monitoring software, used – according to the company's claims – by over 90% of all Internet service providers.[http://www.arbornetworks.com/corporate/about-us "About Arbor Networks"]. Arbor Networks. Retrieved September 3, 2013. The company's products are used to protect networks from denial-of-service attacks, botnets, computer worms, and efforts to disable network routers. The service employs port scanning from the IP range 146.88.240.0/24 in which threats are being detected.{{cite web |title=Arbor Observatory |url=https://www.arbor-observatory.com/ |website=Arbor Observatory}}
History
The company was founded in 2000 when co-founders Farnam Jahanian and Rob Malan spun out research from the University of Michigan, sponsored by DARPA, Cisco, and Intel.http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~farnam/Jahanian-vita-2007.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 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 venture capital. 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 Battery Ventures and Cisco Systems, among others.[http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2002/08/05/daily7.html?f=et54 "Arbor Networks lands $22M in funding"]. Boston Business Journal. Retrieved June 26, 2010. In January 2008, Arbor acquired Ellacoya Networks, a company which provides broadband traffic shaping products. The acquisition was expected to increase the total addressable market (TAM) for Arbor to $750 million in 2008, and to $1.5 billion by the end of 2009.[http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/arbor-networks-buys-ellacoya-622 "Arbor Networks buys Ellacoya"]. InfoWorld. Retrieved June 26, 2010. In March 2009, Arbor worked with 100 ISPs to create a new network monitoring system, called ATLAS 2.0.[http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031009-arbor-networks-internet-monitoring.html?hpg1=bn "Arbor Networks bolsters Internet monitoring system".] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418160202/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031009-arbor-networks-internet-monitoring.html?hpg1=bn |date=April 18, 2009 }} NetworkWorld. Retrieved June 26, 2010. In October 2009, the company estimated that Google paid almost nothing for YouTube's bandwidth, noting that Google probably used dark fibre instead to run the website.[https://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/ "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.[https://archive.today/20130201052655/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS221439+31-Aug-2010+PRN20100831 "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.[http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/arbor-networks-acquires-security-analytics-innovator-packetloop-1826666.htm "Arbor Networks Acquires Security Analytics Innovator Packetloop".] Marketwired. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
Company
Arbor has strategic partnerships with Cisco, IBM, and Juniper Networks. In addition to its headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company also has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, London, and Singapore. Wired stated that due to the popularity of Arbor's software among ISPs, the company "likely knows more about the [Internet's] ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency".
Arbor is now part of NetScout Systems as part of the acquisition of Fluke, Tektronix Communications (TekComms) and VSS in 2015 from Danaher.{{Cite web|title=Acquisition of Danaher's Communications Business Complete|url=https://www.netscout.com/news/press-release/netscout-completes-danaher-acquisition|access-date=2020-08-21|website=NETSCOUT|language=en|archive-date=2020-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927180048/https://www.netscout.com/news/press-release/netscout-completes-danaher-acquisition|url-status=dead}}
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External links
- [http://www.arbornetworks.com/ Official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923084424/https://www.packetloop.com/ Packetloop website]
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Category:American companies established in 2000