founded 2000 2000 website arbornetworks.com footnotes references 1 2 arbor networks is a software company founded in 2000 2 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 . 3 4 the company s products are used to protect networks from denial of service attacks botnets computer worms and efforts to disable network routers . 5 contents 1 history 2 company 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in 2000 when founders farnam jahanian and rob malan spun out research from the university of michigan . they were joined by students jonathan arnold matthew smart and jonathan poland 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 . 5 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 . 6 in march 2009 arbor worked with 100 isps to create a new network monitoring system called atlas 2.0 . 7 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 . 4 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 . 1 on september 3 2013 arbor networks announced that it has acquired privately held packetloop a leader in security analytics based in sydney australia . 8 company edit 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 . 4 arbor is now part of netscout systems as part of the acquisition of fluke tektronix communications tekcomms and vss in 2015 from danaher . references edit a b tektronix communications completes acquisition of arbor networks . reuters . retrieved january 15 2011 . a b arbor networks inc. . businessweek . retrieved june 26 2010 . about arbor networks . arbor networks . retrieved september 3 2013 . a b c youtube s bandwidth bill is zero . welcome to the new net . wired . retrieved june 26 2010 . a b arbor networks lands 22m in funding . boston business journal . retrieved june 26 2010 . arbor networks buys ellacoya . infoworld . retrieved june 26 2010 . arbor networks bolsters internet monitoring system . networkworld . retrieved june 26 2010 . arbor networks acquires security analytics innovator packetloop . marketwired . retrieved september 3 2013 . external links edit official website packetloop website v t e tektronix subsidiaries arbor networks products tektronix 4010 tektronix 4050 tektronix 4105 tektronix analog oscilloscopes tektronix extended hex tektronix phaser 740 people howard vollum del yocam related articles danaher corporation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arbor networks & oldid 703899380 categories networking companiescompanies established in 2000danaher subsidiariestektronixhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 february 2016 at 09 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view