With IPv6 as the designated successor to IPv4, enterprises and service providers are implementing products and solutions to enable a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6. To facilitate a smooth transition to IPv6, and ensure forward and backward compatibility with legacy IPv4 systems, a highly scalable IPv4/IPv6 gateway is required. The gateway should support the various IPv4-to-IPv6 techniques in use today, each of which addresses a diff erent business need, as well as being flexible enough to accomodate future techniques.
AX Series New-Generation Application Delivery Controller: High-Performance IPv4/IPv6 Gateway
A10 Networks' AX Series provides the industry's most scalable IPv4/IPv6 gateway to ensure a smooth transition. The AX Series includes the most comprehensive set of IPv6 migration features of any ADC on the market. With the AX Series, customers can run IPv4 and IPv6 features simultaneously through a scalable high performance platform designed to address the transition requirements and beyond.
IPv4 and IPv6 Server Load Balancer (SLB) Dual-Stack Support
IPv6 Transition and IPv4 Preservation Support
IPv6 Server Load Balancing
Performance
Logging
Flexibility of Deployment
AX Management Through IPv6
IPv6 Routing
High Availability
Interop Tokyo 2007 to 2011
In 2007 the AX Series was invited to be the only server load balancing
device for the Interop Tokyo ShowNet, where it load balanced live
IPv4, IPv6 and SSL traffic that was used by thousands of concurrent
users at the event. The AX Series also won Grand Prix/Best of Interop
Tokyo 2007 through a unanimous vote by the judges.
In the following year, 2008, the AX Series was again the only server load balancer for the ShowNet, load balancing live IPv4/IPv6 traffic, and demonstrating superior IPv6 performance and advanced IPv6 features. The AX Series won Grand Prix/Best of Interop as Best Carrier/ ISP Solution. Participation and more awards have followed in each subsequent year.
NTT Plala 2008
The NTT Plala Hikari-TV implementation became live in 2008 for IPTV
broadcasting and video on-demand service (and Karaoke!). This was achieved with a native IPv6-based, fiber-to-the-home network. Hikari-TV was the first large-scale, commercially successful application of IPTV service running over an IPv6 network. Plala noted, "After a comparative test... we selected A10's AX Series... as the high-performance server load balancer platform for 'Hikari-TV'... video distribution service..."
World IPv6 Day 2011
In June 2011 www.a10networks.com participated as an IPv6 Test Day web site, one of the 40 or so sites tracked by RIPE. AX devices also were used by many A10 customers who also participated, representing a broad cross section of the Internet community, including: a large US web portal, a major US news organization, DNS providers, and a number of Web 2.0 and Cloud companies. One customer reported well over a million unique IPv6 addresses hitting its infrastructure's front-end A10 IPv6 virtual IP addresses (VIPs). World IPv6 Day represented a unique test bed for the AX Series, which had no issues reported on the day of the event.
Live Deployments and Summary
The AX Series has a large number of live customers in production and
in field and lab trials. Due to its real-world experience and extensive
interoperability testing with industry organizations, the AX Series offers
the most feature rich and scalable solution on the market today in
compact and energy efficient 1 or 2 rack unit (RU) form factors. With
live deployments across North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America
and Asia, A10 has local resources to assist any customer.