Rob Malan's Posts

Long strange trip…

May 21, 2012 by Rob Malan

It’s time to move on. What an amazing twelve years! It’s hard to get my head around it, but building a company from 2am brainstorming sessions to a real-live company with employees, customers, and partners sprinkled all over the globe is pretty crazy. It would be easy to say that we accomplished what Farnam and [...]

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The importance of DARPA funding

November 9, 2011 by Rob Malan

As many of you know, Arbor Networks was founded in 2000 in order to commercialize research I did as a graduate student with Farnam Jahanian, my advisor at the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of Michigan. The research we did, and everything that followed, would not have been possible without a [...]

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Cloud Signaling: From napkin to networks

November 3, 2011 by Rob Malan

Long time comin’! Cloud Signaling! Man… what a long time coming! I remember drawing the concept for cloud signaling at a Denny’s at about 1:30 in the morning way back in the Spring of 1999. Arbor wasn’t even incorporated at the time, but Farnam and I were talking about being able to hit a ‘big [...]

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