Rob Malan's Posts

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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World IPv6 Day: Final Look and “Wagon’s Ho!”

June 9, 2011 by Rob Malan

After reflecting on the data from IPv6 day, the phrase the best comes to mind is: “Wagon’s Ho!” It’s going to be a long hard slog to IPv6-Land. Yesterday’s IPv6 flag day looks to have been a success. After a decade of implementation work by the infrastructure vendors in building towards IPv4 functional parity, combined [...]

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