Arbor Networks, Inc. www.arbornetworks.com , a leading provider of DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, announced a new partnership with Networks Unlimited to help organisations better mitigate and defend against the growing DDoS threat to their customers’ businesses. Networks Unlimited is distributing Arbor’s Pravail and Peakflow solutions for DDoS mitigation and advanced threat protection in the South African market. 

Networks Unlimited is a leading Value-Added distributor of IT Security, Networking and Storage Solutions, located across the three major centres of South Africa. Since our formation in 1994, we have continually adapted to today’s progressively more competitive and evolving market place. Networks Unlimited has remained one-step ahead of the competition by providing best-of-breed products that allows for tangible results to customers via the implementation of our early adoption technology.

Part of our company strategy in becoming the leading Value-Added distributor for Sub-Saharan Africa, involves concentrating on total customer satisfaction through fast, efficient product and service delivery, easy support access, prompt dispatching of relevant information and minimal purchasing bureaucracy. We currently operate across more than 15 countries in Africa, via a network of channel partners.

“Arbor Networks is regarded as a market leader for DDoS attack mitigation solutions all over the world”, said Anton Jacobsz – Managing Director, Networks Unlimited. “By adding its enterprise and service provider solutions to our portfolio in South Africa, Networks Unlimited is now able to offer our resellers and partners proven solutions that address the slew of threats facing enterprise and network operators alike. This includes the growing focus by attackers on targeting the application-layer where critical services and applications live. By leveraging Arbor’s technology, we’re giving our customers solutions that provide business continuity no matter what attack they may be mitigating behind the scenes.”

“Both of our product lines provide proven DDoS mitigation technology that have been battle-tested in some of the world’s most complex networks,” said Bryan Hamman - Territory Manager, Sub Saharan Africa, Arbor Networks. “Through this partnership, we’re working together with Networks Unlimited to help businesses and service providers across South Africa to defend against DDoS and other advanced threats that continue to grow and evolve in size and complexity.” 

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Arbor Networks' customers include many of the world's ISPs and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. According to a report published in December 2013 from Infonetics Research titled, DDoS Prevention Appliance Market Outlook, Arbor’s Pravail® Availability Protection System is the most broadly deployed enterprise DDoS detection and mitigation solution www.arbornetworks.com in the market today.