NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense
An inline, stateless on-premises appliance placed at the network edge for the first line of DDoS defense, descended from Arbor Networks' Peakflow/Sightline product line following NETSCOUT's 2015 acquisition of Arbor. Cloud signaling automatically escalates to NETSCOUT's Arbor Cloud scrubbing service when an attack exceeds what the local appliance can absorb.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- On-premHybrid
- Organization size
- Mid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
- $$$
Capability checklist
How NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense measures up against the full DDoS Protection taxonomy.
- Volumetric attack mitigation — supported
- Absorbs and scrubs massive traffic floods aimed at saturating bandwidth.
- Application-layer (L7) protection — not supported
- Filters attacks targeting web apps and APIs rather than just raw bandwidth.
- Always-on or on-demand mitigation — supported
- Offers continuously active protection or activation only when an attack is detected.
- Global scrubbing capacity — supported
- Total network capacity available to absorb attack traffic before it reaches you.
- BGP/DNS-based redirection — supported
- Reroutes traffic through scrubbing centers via BGP announcement or DNS during an attack.
- Automatic mitigation speed — supported
- How quickly the service detects and starts mitigating an attack without manual action.
Alternatives
Other DDoS Protection tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.