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Florence County Selects A10 Networks AX Series to Scale Application Delivery for Government Sector

AX Series Delivers Florence County a Flexible Server Load Balancer Solution, including Application Acceleration and Optimization for VMware Cluster

SAN JOSE, CA. - May 11, 2009 -- A10 Networks® today announced that Florence County Government, located in Florence South Carolina, has selected A10's AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers to ensure that the county's Website, online information and applications are always available and performing for its users. The Florence County Website includes the Sheriff's county Website, Intranet and internal applications for Florence County, with three million unique viewers a month.

Running a demanding Web environment, Florence County's traffic relies on Web servers in a clustered VMware environment and SQL server cluster. To optimize and accelerate its virtualized server clusters, a cost-effective, fast and very feature rich server load balancer platform was essential. To meet this requirement, Florence County selected A10's AX 2100 new generation server load balancers as they deliver a high-performance, carrier-grade solution at a very competitive price.

"We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older technologies and designs, while including a significant expense," said Joshua Suggs, Web developer for Florence County. "We chose A10's AX 2100s as they deliver 3X the hardware capability at half the cost of competing solutions, plus unique features such as aXAPI and a support team that we can trust."

Florence County's compelling reasons for choosing A10's AX Series resulted from Application Delivery requirements and core server load balancing functionality, including:

• Application Acceleration and Optimization for VMware: Allowing flexibility to offer increased user capacity and/or the number of virtual servers that can be run
• aXAPI for Custom Management: RESTful approach offers key benefits versus competitors' more cumbersome and hard to use SOAP/XML APIs
• aFleX for Flexible Advanced Layer 7 Scripting: Minimizes and corrects security issues with third party applications, and ensures availability through external health check on backend servers

Additional key features within the AX Series include:

• Revolutionary Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) to provide the most scalable server load balancing solutions
• Comprehensive Layer 4-7 features and performance, SSL acceleration, hardware compression and RAM Cache at a cost-effective price
• Superior reliability and redundancy through comprehensive application layer health checks and load balancing algorithms, while running on a platform with carrier-grade hardware components

"We are proud that Florence County ensures a positive Web experience for its users with the help of our award-winning AX Series family," said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10 Networks. "The AX Series provides a competitive advantage for government customers by delivering more than twice the performance at half the price of competing solutions, including innovative features and functionality."

To read the full case study, please visit: http://www.a10networks.com/resources/files/CS-FlorenceCounty.pdf

About A10 Networks
A10 Networks was founded in Q4 2004 with a mission to provide innovative networking and security solutions. A10 Networks makes high-performance products that help organizations accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10 Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.a10networks.com.

About Florence County
Florence County is in the center of northeastern South Carolina at the junction of interstates 95 and 20. With nearly 75 percent of the nation's population within a day's drive, it is an ideal location for construction, manufacturing and retail. The County provides basic and necessary services consistent with the needs of its citizens in a cost-effective, efficient, and customer friendly manner. County Government assumes a proactive leadership role in determining the future direction of the county. Florence County Government exists to serve the needs of its citizens for a safe, secure, and healthy environment. It seeks to foster planned and managed growth and desirable economic development that creates prosperity and job opportunities for all its citizens. For more information, visit www.florenceco.org.

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Contact:
Kelly LeBlanc
A10 Networks
408-325-8668
kleblanc@a10networks.com