A10 Networks AX Series
Model Comparison
The AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager family from A10 Networks is designed to meet the growing demands of Web and Triple-Play Services (data, voice, video). The AX offers intelligent Layer 4-7 application processing capabilities with industry-leading performance and scalability to meet critical business requirements at competitive prices, resulting in the industry's best price/performance solution.
The AX Series integrates modern multi-core, multi-threaded OS technologies (ACOS) with A10's Flexible Traffic ASIC, switch/route ASIC and SSL Acceleration ASIC to provide performance advantages.
Leveraging Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) technologies used in super-computing, the AX uses a decoupled multi-CPU architecture with simultaneous high-speed memory access to process application traffic in true parallel fashion, without the need to copy data or replicate computing instructions.
Tolly Report on A10 Appliances
ACOS, standard in all AX models, provides true linear scalability of Layer 4-7 application features - for acceleration, availability, and security. The AX Series includes secure email services, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), comprehensive firewall load balancing, video/voice acceleration, IPv4 and IPv6 traffic management, and SSL and non-SSL server load balancing.
Next-generation Server Load Balancer
With the rapid growth of the Internet and the deployment of Web-based applications growing at an ever increasing rate, performance, security, and availability of critical business applications are essential for companies to compete effectively - today and in the future.
Benefits of AX Series Next-generation Server Load Balancer
Feb. 2008, Presented by Steve Sacchi, Senior Systems Engineer (8:57)
The AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager family from A10 Networks is designed to meet the growing demands of Web and Triple-Play Services (data, voice, video). The AX offers intelligent Layer 4-7 application processing capabilities with industry-leading performance and scalability to meet critical business requirements at competitive prices, resulting in the industry's best price/performance solution.
Key Features
- Industry-leading Application Performance
- Industry's first Layer 7 appliance to deliver over 1 million transactions per second. (Based on January 2008 Tolly Report)
- Superior performance by any measure - Layer 4 connections per second (CPS), Layer 7 CPS, SSL transactions per second and Layer 4-7 throughput.
- Industry's best performance per watt, per dollar, and per rack unit.
- Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) delivers multi-threaded performance and is tuned for multiple CPUs with multiple cores for future-proof scalability.
- Purpose-built hardware provides efficient packet buffer management, TCP connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, support for IPv4 and IPv6 and much more.
- Gig and 10 Gig interfaces.
Application Availability, Scalability and Flexibility
Provides 99.999% reliability for applications.
Scales server farm capacity with next-generation server load balancing.
Flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements with aRule scripting language.
Supports Layer 2 Hot-Standby, Active-Active and Active-Standby.
Delivers carrier-grade high availability (HA) for 100% uninterruptible service.
Supports both Transparent Mode and Gateway Mode for flexibility in deployment.
Integrated Application Security
- Protects application servers from Denial of Service and protocol anomaly attacks.
- Ensures application availability for legitimate traffic during malicious attacks.
- Near line-rate performance-AX 3200 supports over 9 million SYN cookies per second with zero CPU utilization.
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