A10 Networks EX Series
Bandwidth Management with Identity

The EX Series is the industry's only bandwidth management appliance with identitybased application visibility, helping organizations optimize and secure network traffic through the management of bandwidth by applications and users. The EX Series provides quality of service, instant application and user visibility, security, scalability and reliability. These capabilities are built upon a secure and high performance platform for an unmatched solution to optimize the network edge.

Appliance Features

Application Bandwidth Manager

• Comprehensive Protocol Support Comprehensive Protocol Support
  Maximize bandwidth with support for over 100 business applications to ensure that the most critical network traffic receives the highest priority across WAN links. The EX provides automatic application protocol classification, comprehensive policies and traffic controls such as rate shaping, rate limiting, selective dropping and priority marking. Hide this
• Application Protocol Classification Application Protocol Classification
  Application protocol classification techniques extend above simple Layer 3 and 4 (IP and port) combinations. Using A10's deep packet inspection techniques enables the EX to identify application protocols for positive application identification. These techniques enable the EX to identify application protocols that use port hopping, port tunneling, and encryption.
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• Bandwidth Utilization Reports Bandwidth Utilization Reports
  Bandwidth utilization reports quickly identify top protocols, and users consuming too much bandwidth. Graphical real-time and historical reports with drill down capabilities are available from the web user interface. PDF or XML formatted reports may be exported manually or emailed periodically on a configurable schedule.
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Instant Application & User Visibility

• Identity-Based Application Visibility Identity-Based Application Visibility
  Know who is doing "what" and "when" by monitoring application activity and user identities for a variety of Instant Messaging (IM), file transfer, and email applications.
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• High Level Data Leakage Monitoring High Level Data Leakage Monitoring
  Application visibility allows a comprehensive log of application data and a free form text search engine to pinpoint data of interest. In the case of a file transfer the search flexibility allows viewing of application data to see the original location, filename, user actions to the file and source IP address (or user ID). EX strikes the balance between useful information and administration overhead.
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Traffic Optimization

• Link Load Balancing Link Load Balancing
  Supporting multi-homed networks with fine-grained load balancing across two or more WAN links to help increase WAN capacity, ensure link level redundancy and optimize network traffic over the WAN. EX uniquely enables load balancing by application protocol. This allows mission critical applications to use highly available dedicated links and non-critical applications such as web surfing or multimedia to use links with lower service level agreements.
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• Compression (site-to-site) Compression (site-to-site)
  Providing improved delivery times of traffic over the WAN while reducing overall bandwidth requirements.
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Security, Scalability and Reliability

• Network IPS Network IPS
  Identifying network anomalies before they impact your internal machines. Providing real time protection against attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), port scans, address sweeps, protocol misuse and malformed packets.
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• Performance Performance
  Delivering up to 2Gbps (EX 2000) and up to 500Mbps (EX 1000) of aggregate throughput and rate shaping/limiting capabilities, based on an optimized, purpose-built, high performance processing architecture.
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• Flexible Deployment Options Flexible Deployment Options
  Integrating into existing network infrastructures with support for both transparent and gateway modes, allowing fail open or closed configurations. Transparent mode also means no network configuration is changed for seamless deployment.
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