AX SERIES: PRICE/PERFORMANCE

Twice the Performance, Half the Price

A10’s AX Series is the best price/performance Web Application Delivery platform on the market today. Inline with A10’s approach, all AX Series features are included in the platform for the standard list price and customers are never nickel-and-dimed for essential features.

Two independent performance tests conducted by The Tolly Group evaluated A10's AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers using the same methodology as F5's publicly available 2007 performance report. In both tests, the AX Series delivered over twice the performance at less than half the price of incumbents.

In one test, The Tolly Group evaluated the AX 3200 versus F5’s publicly available performance test, which included performance results for the Big-IP 8800 and competing products from Citrix/NetScaler and Cisco. The AX 3200 is a 10 Gigabit 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

In another test, The Tolly Group evaluated the AX 2100 versus F5's BIG-IP 3400. The AX 2100 is a server load balancer designed for small/medium businesses and enterprises. Here are the highlights from this test:

• Offers 4+ times better price/performance at Layer 4
• Delivers 13+ times better price/performance at Layer 7
• Achieves 5+ times better transaction rate and aggregate throughput at Layer 7
• Offers better price/performance for SSL - without additional licensing

To read the full Tolly Report for the AX 2100 versus the BIG-IP 3400 click here.

Compared with F5’s Next-generation BIG-IP 3600: