Arbor Security Blog

How Big is Google?

Craig Labovitz, March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments

Google’s recent FTTH announcement generated a wave of media coverage and industry discussion. Responses ranged from exuberant local communities racing to sign up to anti-competitive howls from incumbent carriers.
Industry pundits wondered what is Google up to? What will the search giant do with 1Gbps to the home? And more ominously, is Google getting too big?
While [...]

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IPv6 – Is 2010 the year of the big plunge?

Carlos Morales, March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

IPv6 is one of the biggest topics of hallway conversations at the Austin, TX NANOG conference last week ranking right up there with “what I did last night” and “did you try the barbeque from xxxx?”
The questions on many people’s lips are “What are you doing with IPv6″ and “when are you rolling it out?” 
This is [...]

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5th Edition of the Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report

Danny McPherson, January 19, 2010 | 3 Comments

Today we released the 5th Edition of the Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR), albeit a couple months later than we initially had intended (it had to take a backseat to some operational stuff).  On the upside, it’s here now(!), and we doubled the respondent pool over last year, to include 132 respondents globally, with both wider geographic and [...]

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Fire or DDoS – Which is more probable?

Danny McPherson, January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments

The charts below contain summary data obtained from ~100 ISPs sharing information with Arbor by way of our anonymous statistics sharing program, enabled through operational Peakflow SP systems globally over the past 12 months (roughly, CY2009).
This data is largely a superset follow-on to a blog post from mid-2009 that seems to have gained momentum in [...]

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