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Shasta County Deploys A10 Networks AX Series to Scale Application Delivery for Government Sector

AX Series Delivers Shasta County a Flexible Server Load Balancer Solution, including Application Acceleration for Streaming Video and Web Server Clusters Running VMware

SAN JOSE, CA. - June 1, 2009 -- A10 Networks® today announced that Shasta County Government, located in Redding, CA, has deployed A10's AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers to ensure distribution of information as quickly, cost effectively and efficiently as possible to its public community. When evaluating its Web infrastructure, Shasta County found its existing network was unable to scale with the increased load required for public communication, such as streaming video. In addition, complaints were received that Web pages were unavailable. To address these challenges, Shasta County upgraded to a new infrastructure of clustered Web servers running in a VMware environment, and began researching high-performance server load balancers.

The Shasta County IT team received approval to design an upgraded infrastructure to handle increased traffic load for up to five years, and selected A10's AX Series as the server load balancer platform of choice. Shasta County also replaced the software-based load balancers that were not performing as expected for its financial system with the AX Series. Working together, Shasta County and A10 field engineers swiftly designed and settled on a configuration. The switch-over to AX Series took only ten minutes, without impacting network availability. Directly following switch-over, users called in with feedback that information and applications were now being obtained faster than ever.

"We researched the three major load balancing solutions on the market and were delighted to learn we could deploy AX Series for the most superior technology at a fraction of the price," said Tom Lee, IT supervisor for infrastructure at Shasta County. "Now everyone is happy. We stayed well within our budget; can easily support streaming video for best communication practices; our users notice faster response times, and my team delivered on its charter to serve the public."

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

• Dynamic RAM Caching: Reduces the number of connection and server requests needed for transactions. As a result, Shasta County users have noticed faster response times and the IT team has the proper infrastructure to support increased load from streaming video.
• aFleX Layer 7 Scripting: Allows any portion of data, header or packet to be inspected to minimize or correct security issues on systems with sensitive data.
• SSL Offload: Allows IT to move certificates off of Web servers and onto the AX Series to greatly increase application performance and user response times while reducing management costs for secure transactions.

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 Caching 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 Shasta County is able to quickly, cost effectively and efficiently distribute information to its public community with the help of our AX Series," 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-ShastaCounty.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, EMEA, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.a10networks.com.

About Shasta County
1450 Court St., Suite 124
Redding, CA 96001-1656
Phone: (530) 225-5273
InfoTech@co.shasta.ca.us
http://www.co.shasta.ca.us/html/IT/it_index.htm

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