AX Series: ACOS Architecture

1st Generation
Single CPU Server Load Balancer
Before A10's AX Series

  • All L4-L7 Traffic must go through a single CPU.
2nd & 3rd Generation
Multi-CPU Server Load Balancer
Before A10's AX Series

  • All L4-L7 Traffic can utilize multiple CPUs.
  • However, when a CPU is processing instructions it must block everything other than the instructions it is processing.
  • This causes delay, diminishing return and provides only limited scalability.
  • Non-decoupled CPU architecture.

A10's AX Series With Advanced Core OS (ACOS)
New Generation Server Load Balancer

All L4-L7 Traffic can utilize multiple CPUs in a non-blocking design scenario.

Net Effect

  • Applications run exponentially faster.
  • Greater connections per second.
  • Greater transactions per second.
  • Higher throughput.
  • Decoupled CPU architecture.
  • True multi-processing.


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