Word from the CEO
January 2008 was a very exciting month for A10 Networks. An independent third party test revealed our AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager family delivers more than twice the performance at less than half the price of incumbents such as F5, Citrix and Cisco. It was also determined that our high-end AX Series 3200 is the first in the industry to achieve over one million Layer 7 transactions per second.

In addition, we upgraded the performance and features for all AX platforms with a new software release, and the AX won the server load balancer of the year award from China Computer World magazine. Come see A10 at the RSA and Interop conferences in April where we are excited to demonstrate our products and several never-before-seen innovations. 2008 is the most exciting year for A10 Networks yet. I am looking forward to a year of strong revenue growth, adding new talent and continuing our innovations.

Lee Chen, President and CEO, A10 Networks

Tolly Test Results for the AX Series: Layer 4, Layer 7 and SSL
The Tolly Group recently conducted independent performance tests on A10’s high-end AX 3200, and A10’s entry-level AX 2100 versus F5’s BIG-IP 3400. Results show both products to be the price/performance leaders in their categories.

The AX 3200 is a 10G server load balancer designed for enterprises, ISPs and carriers. Here are the highlights of the AX 3200 performance test:

• Scales Layer 7 performance to more than 1.5 million transactions per second (TPS)
• Exhibits over 540,000 Layer 4 connections per second (CPS)
• Supports over 9 million SYN cookies per second
• Over double the performance at less than half the price of incumbents

The AX 2100 is a server load balancer designed for small/medium businesses and enterprises. Here are the highlights for the AX 2100 versus F5's BIG-IP 3400 test results:

• Offers 4.4X better price/performance at Layer 4
• Delivers 13.8X better price/performance at Layer 7
• Achieves 5.9X better transaction rate and aggregate throughput at Layer 7
• Offers better price/performance for SSL without additional licensing

To read the full AX 3200 report, click here: http://www.a10networks.com/files/AX_3200-Tolly.pdf
To read the full AX 2100 vs. BIG-IP 3400 report, click here: http://www.a10networks.com/files/AX_2100-vs-BIG-IP-3400-Tolly.pdf

Increased Performance and Features for all AX Series Models with a New Software Release:
The AX Series family recently received significant performance and feature enhancements. Key new features include:

• Comprehensive IPv6 support including SSL and high availability.
• Massive Spam Filtering: Allows customers to "blacklist" (deny) or "whitelist"(allow) traffic from individual clients or client subnets, with support for very large lists (up to 5 million).
• Secure Email: Support for STARTTLS to enable secure email traffic to and from Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers by encrypting mail traffic to and from clients.
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Load Balancing: Provides SIP application intelligence with advanced health checks to efficiently manage SIP traffic for VoIP, messaging and other multi-media applications.

There are many aspects to consider before deploying server load balancers, including features, performance and price. Contact an A10 Technical Expert today to discuss the right design for your network: sales@a10networks.com

A10 Your Network: Accelerate, Optimize, Secure
A10 Networks was founded with a mission to provide innovative networking and security solutions. A10 makes high-performance products that help organizations of all sizes accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10's portfolio consists of three product families: the AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager family, which are next-generation server load balancers; the EX Series bandwidth management appliances with user identity reporting; and the ID Series network identity management appliances for authentication, access, password management, and instant identity resolution.

A10 Networks is a venture-funded, and privately-held, with offices in the United States, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. www.a10networks.com