Arrcus, the hyperscale networking software company and a leader in edge infrastructure, announced it has joined Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an initiative encouraging the adoption of industry best practices and technological solutions by telecom network operators that provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing threats. Arrcus is the first new vendor to join MANRS since the inception of the Equipment Vendor Program earlier this year with participation from founding members Arista, Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, and Nokia, and the first software networking vendor to be a member in MANRS. Arrcus, with its experience building the ACE platform, is pleased to bring deep routing insights to the MANRS group.
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With 5G, an increasing number of latency-sensitive applications are taking advantage of distributed edge environments – e.g., applications supporting industrial IoT as well as consumer and commercial AR/VR experiences. As a result, ensuring secure and reliable end-to-end networking across the distributed internet is critical. The internet is a constantly evolving mesh that is made up of a group of networks that uses Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to route packets. These network groups, referred to as autonomous systems (AS) and managed by organizations including telecom network operators, have a series of peering agreements among themselves that allow traffic to move between their networks. However, BGP is susceptible to attacks including route hijacking, route leaks, and IP address spoofing that can cause disruptions to the internet, resulting in lost revenue and negatively impacting brand reputation. To address this telecom network operators need to secure internet-facing infrastructure from control plane and data plane attacks to reduce the impact of malicious attacks, protect network assets, and improve business availability. MANRS aims to standardize and develop best practices for routing security that is vital to protecting the future of the internet.
“We’re excited to have Arrcus join the MANRS community to collaborate on best practices to secure routing and improve Internet resiliency,” said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Vice President of the Internet Society – a global organization that provides support for MANRS.