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Arbor Sightline
See Your Network. Solve Your Problems.
Grow Your Business.

The dual forces of rapid growth in network data and costs and the loss of revenues to over-
the-top (OTT) applications are squeezing traditional Service Providers, while Enterprises with
KEY BENEFITS large networks are evolving into operations that resemble Service Providers. For all network
operators, solving key business problems starts with proper visibility. Built for owners of
Optimize Network Resources small to large and complex networks and proven to scale cost-effectively across your entire
Use comprehensive traffic, customer and
global network, Arbor Sightline analyzes various forms of network telemetry from across the
geographic reports for smarter traffic
network to transform raw data into business intelligence. This enables you to act on these
engineering. Reduce transit costs, improve
utilization and intelligently plan for the growth insights to solve your business problems from network planning and engineering to service
of your network. availability and enablement.

Serve the Business The Solution That Evolves With Your Business Needs
Provide insights to the business leveraging
As network operators, you demand a solution that evolves with your business needs. Arbor
built-in and ad hoc traffic and market reports.
Uncover trends to help the business grow Sightline has been evolving with operators over the last decade and continues to be the de
and provide reporting to your management. facto platform for understanding how traffic is flowing through your network. Arbor Sightline
addresses the following key business objectives:
Minimize Outage Time
Through proactive detection of network or Gain Business Insights, Not Just Data
service availability threats, quickly diagnose
and prevent misconfigurations, flash crowds
The network is the business. Operators must optimize resources and thus save money, but also
or malicious threats such as DDoS attacks mine traffic data to better understand the value of network connectivity. Arbor Sightline provides
from impacting availability. robust capabilities from network-wide capacity planning and managing overlay networks to
comprehensive customer analytics. This pervasive network intelligence can also be leveraged to
Launch Services make routing and peering design decisions, lower transit costs and provide marketing insights.
Leverage the same Arbor Sightline platform
used for network visibility and threat Keep the Network and Services Running
detection to easily provision, deliver and
maintain new services from traffic intelligence, Time is money. Operators must quickly detect and resolve problems before they impact the
market breakdowns, Quality of Service (QoS) business. Arbor Sightline can detect potential outages from network hotspots, BGP hijacks,
and MPLS/BGP VPNs. DDoS attack traffic or even network misconfiguration. Then, Arbor Sightline contributes to
root cause analysis tools to quickly identify and resolve issues, including DDoS attacks with its
Flexible Cloud-Based Licensing mitigation capabilities of BGP Flowspec, Blackhole, and Access Control Lists (ACL).
Quickly and easily expand visibility coverage
while lowering total cost of ownership with
Launch Revenue Generating Services
pooled licensing capacity and scalability.
Growth is crucial. Operators must support and drive top-line growth. With Arbor Sightline,
Global Analytics and Visibility operators can propose new service offerings such as DDoS protection, customer or ASN
The new AIF subscription for Arbor Sightline specific traffic analytics, Quality of Service (QoS) and MPLS VPN services. Current investments
and Sightline with Insight combines your and infrastructure can be utilized to quickly launch new services or enhance existing ones. The
local traffic analytics and visibility to a global built‑in portal, multi-tenant customer scoping and RESTful API help operationalize these new
experience with ATLAS Intelligence Feed.
revenue-generating services quickly and efficiently.

Automate Processes
A RESTful API enables full integration with
Sightline with Sentinel
other operational systems so you can Leveraging NETSCOUT Smart Data, Sightline with Sentinel provides deep insight into the
automate processes and drive more value application layer, delivering over-the-top (OTT) traffic analysis across complex networks.
from your network. The API can also access Today, network optimization is not just about the total volume of network traffic, it is
Sightline with Insight’s big data lake.
about delivering desired content most efficiently while minimizing peering and transit
costs. Sentinel allows network operators to understand where and how major content
services are traversing the network in order to optimize both user experience and peering and
transit relationships.

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SEE YOUR NETWORK SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS GROW YOUR BUSINESS

Scalable to Tomorrow’s Networks Business Turn Insights into Action Generate New Service Revenues
Customers

Data Center
Edge

Customer
Edge

Transit Peer Edge

Backbone

Broadband
Customers

Mobile Mobile Network

Subscribers Edge

Arbor Sightline: See Your Network, Solve Your Problems, Grow Your Business.

Sightline with Sentinel also uses Smart data to identify advanced cyber threats, such as infected
hosts or IOT devices, throughout the network at Tbps scale. It can detect botnet hosts and other
malware infestations, enabling the network operator to pro-actively clean up the network and
ARBOR SIGHTLINE FLEX
prevent future botnet attacks from impacting network services. It also adds additional value LICENSING OPTIONS
to managed security services at extremely low cost, greatly expanding the opportunity to grow
security service revenue. Purchase
Purchase perpetual Arbor Sightline Flex
Sightline with Sentinel also provides a unique, fully integrated inter-network signaling mechanism
Licenses as and when needed, then only
also allows networks to share attack data and coordinate defense against DDoS attacks,
pay annual Maintenance & Support going
enabling services that span network boundaries and helping network operators to cooperate at
forward. Ideal for high-growth and CAPEX-
an unprecedented level to collectively stop DDoS attacks nearer to their source.
centric network operators.

Arbor Sightline Deployment Scaling Site License

Purchase a one-time perpetual Arbor
BGP Routes (Unique) 25,000,000
Sightline Flex License covering the entire
deployment (current or projected needs),
Flows Per Second (Non-Sampled) 48,000,000
then only pay annual Maintenance & Support
Monitored Routers 5,000 going forward. Ideal for larger, high-growth
and CAPEX-centric network operators.
Monitored Interfaces 200,000

Total Interfaces 550,000 Subscription

Pay an annual license subscription that
Appliances/Virtual Machines 150 includes Maintenance & Support. Great
for OPEX-centric organizations adapting
Arbor APS Appliances (Cloud Signaling) 200
to rapidly changing market conditions and
unpredictable growth needs.
Arbor TMS Appliances (Managed) 100

Data Handling Rules (Managed Objects) 20,000

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Arbor Sightline Roles

Role Benefits (Per Instance)

Traffic, Routing, & • Collects flows from up to 32 core routers or 100 edge routers in an Arbor Sightline deployment
Analysis
User Interface • Dedicated user interface for Sightline deployment management and reporting
• Supports up to 100 concurrent users or 700 per deployment
• Supports up to 200 Arbor APS appliances to receive Cloud Signaling™ from and is used for managed services, supporting
multi-tenant customer portals, portal API and more concurrent users
Data Storage • Dedicated management platform for creating monitored and protected managed objects (customers, networks,
resources)
• Each supports up to 1,000 Managed Objects (MOs)

Arbor Sightline Virtual Machine Requirements

VMware Xen KVM

Hypervisor VMware Sphere v5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 Xen Cloud Platform v1.6.10– 61809 KVM QEMU v2.11
vCPUs 8 to 32 8 to 15 8 to 32
Network Interfaces 1 to 10 1 to 10 1 to 10
Memory 16, 24 or 32GB 16, 24 or 32GB 16, 24 or 32GB
Storage 100GB min 100GB min 100GB min
Note: Consult the product documentation for specific recommendations.

Arbor Sightline-7000 Appliances Specifications

Power Requirements Redundant, load sharing and auto-sensing 850W dual power supples; AC: 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 12/6 A; DC: -40 to
-72 V, 28/14 A max
Physical Dimensions Chassis: 2U rack height; Weight: 36.95 lbs (17.7 kg); Height: 3.45 inches (8.76 cm); Width: 17.14 inches (43.54 cm);
Depth: 20 inches (50.8 cm); Standard 19 inches and 23 inches rack mountable
Hard Drives Six 480 GB solid state drives configured for RAID 5
Network Interfaces 2 x 1 GigE (SFP for copper, GigE SX, or GigE LX); or 8 x 1 GigE (SFP for copper, GigE SX, or GigE LX); or 2 x 10 GigE (SFP+
for SR or LR) and 4 x 1 GigE (SFP for copper, GigE SX, or GigE LX)
Environmental Operating temperature: 41° to 104°F (5° to 44°C); Humidity (operating): 95%, non-condensing at temperatures of 73º
to 104º F (23º to 40º C)
Operating System ArbOS is Arbor’s proprietary, embedded operating system, based on Linux
Regulatory Compliance UL60950-1/CSA 60950-1; EN60950-1; IEC60950-1; CB Certificate & Report including all international deviations;
SONCAP; EAC Mark; CE—Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU; KCC Mark, RoHS 2011/65/EU; Telcordia GR-63; ETSI EN
300 019; NEBS; ETSI EN 300 753; cULus mark; IC ICES-003 Class A; CE mark to EMC Directive, 2014/30/EU; EN55022,
Class A; EN55024; EN61000-3-2; EN61000-3-3; CISPR 22, Class A, CISPR 24 Immunity; FCC 47 CFR Parts 15, Class A

Enables collection of up to 240,000 flows per second.

Corporate Headquarters Sales Information Product Support

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Phone: +1 978-614-4000
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