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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. Deploy Arbor Sightline to
Optimize Network Resources match your requirements – Virtual Machines or dedicated appliances – and achieve pervasive
Use comprehensive traffic, customer and network visibility with ease. Built for owners of large and complex networks and proven to scale
geographic reports for smarter traffic cost-effectively across your entire global network, Arbor Sightline analyzes NetFlow, SNMP and
engineering. Reduce transit costs, improve BGP routes from across the network to transform raw data into business insights. This enables
utilization and intelligently plan for the growth you to act on these insights to solve your business problems from network planning and
of your network.
engineering to service availability and enablement.

Serve the Business

The Solution That Evolves With Your Business Needs
Provide insights to the business leveraging
built-in and ad hoc traffic and market reports. As network operators, you demand a solution that evolves with your business needs. Arbor
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 The network is the business. Operators must optimize resources and thus save money, and
and prevent misconfigurations, flash crowds
Arbor Sightline provides robust capabilities from network-wide capacity planning to managing
or malicious threats such as DDoS attacks
overlay BGP/MPLS VPNs. This pervasive network data can also be leveraged to make routing and
from impacting availability.
peering design decisions, lower transit costs and provide marketing insights.
Launch Services
Keep the Network and Services Running
Leverage the same Arbor Sightline platform
used for network visibility and threat Time is money. Operators must quickly detect and resolve problems before they impact the
detection to easily provision, deliver and business. Arbor Sightline can detect potential outages from network hotspots, BGP hijacks,
maintain new services from traffic intelligence, DDoS attack traffic or even network misconfiguration. Then, Arbor Sightline provides root cause
market breakdowns, Quality of Service (QoS) analysis tools to quickly identify and resolve issues, including DDoS attacks with its mitigation
and MPLS/BGP VPNs. capabilities of BGP Flowspec, Blackhole, and Access Control Lists (ACL).

Flexible Cloud-Based Licensing

Launch Revenue Generating Services
Quickly and easily expand visibility coverage
Growth is crucial. Operators must support and drive top-line growth. With Arbor Sightline,
while lowering total cost of ownership with
pooled licensing capacity and scalability. operators can propose new service offerings such as DDoS protection, customer or ASN
specific traffic analytics, Quality of Service (QoS) and MPLS VPN services. Current investments
Control Your Data and infrastructure can be utilized to quickly launch new services or enhance existing ones. The
built‑in portal, multi-tenant customer scoping and RESTful API help operationalize these new
Arbor Sightline puts you in control of your
revenue-generating services quickly and efficiently.
data. You decide which routers send it data,
where that data is stored and who has access
to it. No need to worry about where your data
is or the country that it resides in.

Automate Processes
A RESTful API enables full integration with
other operational systems so you can
automate processes and drive more value
from your network. The API can also access
Sightline with Insight’s big data lake.

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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.

Arbor Sightline Deployment Scaling

BGP Routes (Unique) 25,000,000

ARBOR SIGHTLINE FLEX
LICENSING OPTIONS
Flows Per Second (Non-Sampled) 48,000,000
Purchase
Monitored Routers 5,000
Purchase perpetual Arbor Sightline Flex
Monitored Interfaces 200,000 Licenses as and when needed, then only
pay annual Maintenance & Support going
Total Interfaces 550,000
forward. Ideal for high-growth and CAPEX-
Appliances/Virtual Machines 150 centric network operators.

Arbor APS Appliances (Cloud Signaling) 200

Site License
Arbor TMS Appliances (Managed) 100
Purchase a one-time perpetual Arbor
Data Handling Rules (Managed Objects) 20,000 Sightline Flex License covering the entire
deployment (current or projected needs),
then only pay annual Maintenance & Support
going forward. Ideal for larger, high-growth
Arbor Sightline Roles and CAPEX-centric network operators.

Role Benefits (Per Instance)

Traffic, Routing, & • Collects flows from up to 32 core routers or 100 edge routers in an Subscription
Analysis Arbor Sightline deployment
Pay an annual license subscription that
User Interface • Dedicated user interface for Sightline deployment management includes Maintenance & Support. Great
and reporting for OPEX-centric organizations adapting
• Supports up to 100 concurrent users or 700 per deployment to rapidly changing market conditions and
• Supports up to 200 Arbor APS appliances to receive Cloud Signaling™ unpredictable growth needs.
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)

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Arbor Sightline Virtual Machine Requirements

VMware Xen KVM

Hypervisor VMware Sphere v5.0, Xen Cloud Platform KVM QEMU v1.4.2
5.1 and 5.5 v1.6.10– 61809
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

Features Description
Power Redundant, load sharing and auto-sensing 850W dual power supples;
Requirements AC: 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 12/6 A; DC: -40 to -72 V, 28/14 A max
Physical Chassis: 2U rack height; Weight: 36.95 lbs (17.7 kg); Height: 3.45 inches
Dimensions (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 UL60950-1/CSA 60950-1; EN60950-1; IEC60950-1; CB Certificate
Compliance & 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.

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