Customer Quotes

etòn needed a better way to manage network bandwidth so that required business applications never suffer in performance. We chose the EX Series from A10 Networks because it allows us to manage bandwidth with unprecedented application and user identity visibility so that we can intelligently provision enough capacity for necessary business applications at all times.

Asad Sarabi, VP of operations for etòn Corporation

We considered adding application acceleration features to our F5 BIG-IP server load balancers, but the licensing fees were very high. After evaluating A10's AX Series, we learned that we could provide faster acceleration, at half the price. With A10 all features are included, so we no longer have to dip into our budget in the future for more features or performance. In addition, we now have the latest state-of-the art architecture - and our entire school is benefiting from faster, more responsive applications.

Todd Marsh, Principal Network Engineer, Bentley University

We were impressed with the higher Layer 4 and Layer 7 performance that A10's AX Series deliver versus the existing systems. This enables operational efficiency by allowing us to consolidate from two platforms into one. The AX Series met our business requirements not only with performance, but also with stability, scalability and tremendous value. With the AX Series, we not only ensure a fast user experience, but also lower our cost per transaction.

Cao Yi Feng, Operation Director, Taobao

We deployed A10's AX Series and the appliances easily handled our rapidly increasing traffic. We were surprised at the dramatic performance increases upon enabling the advanced server load balancing and application acceleration functions that are included without additional fees."

Mr. Ye Ning, Technical Director, Jinjiang, a subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment

We deployed A10's AX Series for our employee's mission critical Web applications and they quickly returned on investment by allowing us to serve more customers. The AX Series delivers the advanced Application Delivery Controller solutions required to ensure our Web applications are highly available with consistent low latency, and always operational."

Mr. Chen, CTO, SK Life

Our existing server load balancer platform was incapable to meet the needs of our new Web service project. We chose A10's AX 2100s as they met and exceeded the project's functional requirements, including scalable performance for growth.

Andrew McClements, Network Services Manager, University of the Arts London

We considered adding more F5 BIG-IP server load balancers, but then decided to research competing solutions and evaluate market innovations since our last deployment. After evaluating A10's AX Series, we were impressed with the performance, scalability, reliability and headroom for growth, which led to our selection. With the help of AX Series, we increase our competitive edge by providing an enhanced level of service to our end users.

Jerry Shao, Manager Infrastructure Department, Gamania

We researched the major Application Delivery Controller solutions on the market and were impressed to learn we could deploy A10's AX Series for the most superior performance at the best price. The AX Series is particularly useful as it can load balance the application server clusters within the two Blackboard applications. I recommend A10's AX Series as a key component for online learning infrastructures.

Herman Poon, Systems Administrator, McMaster University

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. Now everyone is happy: we stayed well within budget, our users notice faster response times and my team delivered on its charter to serve the public.

Tom Lee, IT Supervisor for Infrastructure, Shasta County

We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older technologies and designs, while including a significant expense. We chose A10's AX 2100s as they deliver 3X the hardware capability at half the cost, plus unique features such as aXAPI and a support team that we can trust.

Joshua Suggs, Web Developer, Florence County

We selected A10's AX 1000s for our managed service practice because it represents the value trinity—better, cheaper, faster—that Bat Blue has built its practice around. The AX 1000s are more innovative, high performance and cost-effective server load balancers than any other solution we found on the market. With the AX 1000, Bat Blue gains a competitive advantage that it can easily translate into increased value for our customers.

Babak Pasdar, President & CEO of Bat Blue Corporation

The AX Series easily handled the record customer traffic we received over the 2008 holiday season. With AX, our eCRM platform is extremely scalable, highly available and fast, so that our employees are constantly able to handle customer demand. At twice the performance & half the price, AX is the best solution for us.

Tom Davis, President & CEO of USA 800

We researched incumbent solutions but discovered the products used older technologies and designs, while including a significant expense. The price/performance and cuttingedge technology value proposition delivered by A10's AX Series is a perfect fit for our Web 2.0 business.

Jeff Queisser, VP of Technical Operations for Box.net

We deployed multiple AX 3200s prior to the 2008 holiday shopping season, and the appliances easily handled the increased traffic. AX delivers the new generation of server load balancers required to ensure our eCommerce site is highly scalable with consistent low latency, and always operational.

Burzin Engineer, VP of Technology for Shopzilla

The price/performance value proposition delivered by A10's AX Series is a perfect fit for our business. The AX platforms are operating at 2 percent CPU usage, versus 50-60 percent with the previous solution. We are now receiving twice the performance at half the price, and an immediate ROI with server offload features.

Dan Benson, Director of Operations for MEVIO

I took an interest in A10 Networks based on the company's stellar reputation in the online community. When I implemented the AX Series in our network environment, I was pleased by the ease of use and flexibility of the product.

Philip Philippides, Senior Network Administrator for CGA Ontario

At Club One, we differentiate our business with the ability to provide streaming video and interactive fitness applications to our customers and partners throughout the US and Canada. To ensure these applications are always running, our servers must always be performing behind the scenes. A10's AX Series balances the server traffic to ensure our applications run non-stop.

Michael Nielson, IT Operations Manager for Club One

We chose A10's AX 2000s as our server load balancer platform because of their impressive interface and competitive price, plus the first class customer service and response from the A10 team. A10's AX Series balance the user connections over our JD Edwards ERP software and Windows 2003 Terminal Servers. We believe we are achieving a more even distribution of load after implementing A10.

Paul Veeneman, Chief Technology Engineer for Hawkins

After a comparative test with competitive server load balancer products, we selected A10's AX Series for its advanced architecture, stable and superior IPv6 performance, outstanding cost effectiveness, and prompt support from A10 and partner Bussan Networks.

Mr. Shinro Nakagawa, General Manager of the Network Engineering Dept. for NTT Plala

We chose A10's AX Series because it is the best price/performance server load balancer on the market and the first in the Web application delivery market that is tuned for multi-core CPU systems. The A10 team is staffed with Layer 4-7 networking experts that carefully designed the server load balancing solution that is tuned for our exact needs. As a result, we have the best server load balancer technology on the market, and our customers are happy with our application speed.

Rick Ku, MIS Assistant Chief for Game Flier

As the provider of end-to-end services for mobile carriers and millions of wireless handsets around the world, our network must always be fast and reliable. We chose A10 Networks' AX Series new generation server load balancers to enhance our carrier-grade network because they provide a new industry price/performance milestone that leaps ahead of incumbents' offerings in this market – which allows our service to be more competitive.

Willy Lee, Senior Director Of Operations for Core Mobility

With 50 million users and a new high-volume system coming online, we needed to build a solution to ensure that traffic bottlenecks are prevented before they occur. We chose A10's AX 2100 switches as our application delivery platform because of their impressive performance and competitive price, plus the customer service and response from the A10 team.

Jason Pelzer, Program Manager for the Lime Wire Store

The A10 team used its super computing chops to develop its own operating system (called the Advanced Core Operating System or ACOS) which can perform high-speed parallel processing without slowing down to distribute or copy packets across multiple CPUs. This algorithm is more efficient than other industry devices that rely on the Linux operating system and its much less efficient parallel processing capabilities. The ACOS operating system is supported by A10's custom ASICs which are added to its devices to achieve a foundation of line-rate switching and routing to keep the devices humming along.

Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group

A10 Networks' AX Series is an application acceleration switch that delivers an industry leading price-performance architecture. With its unique Advanced Core Operation System and flexible aFleX scripting language, the AX Series easily integrates with existing application infrastructures to help customers provide high levels of scalability and flexibility, to ensure availability for business critical services.

Kazutaka Kiuchi, CEO of Bussan Networks

We found the AX Series at the perfect time. After reading positive stories about its price/performance advantage over incumbents we tested the AX in our environment and discovered that the claims we read were true. A10's AX Series provides us with a high-performance server load balancer solution to ensure MyFluVaccine™ is always performing and available.

Bob Coates, VP of Technology for FFF Enterprises

We just bought a pair of EX 2110's, we had a pair of Packeteer 10ks but they could not handle the 500Mb connection we have.  We've been running the EX inline with no issues what so ever. The management interface is easy to use and pretty straight forward.  The reporting capabilities are head and shoulders above the Packeteer. Support is responsive and easy to work with. We also have A10's AX Series load balancers as well. Overall we are very satisfied with the products and the company.

Todd Marsh, Principal Network Engineer, Bentley University

The EX Series delivers bandwidth management, link load balancing and unique application and user visibility features to deliver non-stop network operations for our applications that run over multiple Internet links. As a result, our employee productivity is increased.

Iwen Lender, IT Division Head, PT Asuransi Jiwa Sinarmas

Using A10's EX Series allows us to have a more complete view of the traffic on the network, and the ability to zero in from high-level reports to the exact action we need to investigate. The ID Series appliances also pinpoint exactly the user behind an IP address without any additional wasted time of tracking them down.

Ted Wickham, Senior Network Analyst For LCCC

Identity management is due for explosive growth as government initiatives, new device types, extranet applications and standards drive demand for better network information visibility and control. Vendors like A10 Networks that deliver identity forensics within purpose-built network management tools provide value to customers by making identity integration cost effective, easy to deploy and easy to use.

Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group

Interline Brands now has a system in place that ensures our users can update their own passwords and account information. As a result, we now receive 17% less help desk calls. IT Staff and end users are more productive as end users can now update password and attribute information without interaction from IT Staff.

Fred Odell, Systems Engineer, Interline Brands

Kyungpook National University needed specific features to update our wireless infrastructure. We were pleased to find the unique feature mix in a simple to deploy and cost effective solution with A10 and the ID Series line. We found an offering that is not available from other vendors and has improved the service we offer students as well as decreasing the amount of admin work required significantly on an ongoing basis.

Dong-Ji Bang, team manager for Kyungpook National University

Tokyo Zokei University now has a system in place that ensures we can update users across multiple systems even though they operate independently. The ID Series appliances offer a comprehensive amount of functionality and highperformance platform for the best price on the market today. Our user account management issues have been solved effectively.

Koichi Taguchi, Manager of System Section for Tokyo Zokei University

Shinyoung Securities now has a system in place that ensures we can update users across multiple systems even though they operate independently. The ID Series appliances offer a comprehensive amount of functionality for a fraction of the price of the other solutions currently on the market. Our user provisioning, de-provisioning and password management issues have been solved effectively.

Tae-Joon Choo, IT Manager for Shinyoung Securities

IDsentrie is a strong identity management product that is quick to deploy and easy to use. Its IP-to-ID reporting tool is unique and can easily provide justification for purchasing the product based on the amount of time that can be saved by automating a very manual analysis process.

Mandy Andress, President of ArcSec Technologies

The ability to quickly track critical firewall events back to the originating host using IDsentrie has simplified Silicon Valley Web Hosting's troubleshooting and forensic activities significantly.

Michael Montgomery, Network Operations Manager for Silicon Valley Web Hosting

By leveraging the IDsentrie's IP-to-ID service within etòn Corporation's existing network, I can save an average of 30 minutes while troubleshooting an incident by eliminating the manual step of back-tracking MAC and IP address information to user identity. Now, I can also quickly identify the users involved in a security attack or network alert so that immediate action can be taken before more damage is done. Finally, our IT department can save countless hours annually while reducing time to problem resolution and improving security, reporting and internal controls.

Asad Sarabi, VP of Operations for etòn Corporation

We've only begun to tap some of the exceptional capabilities of the IDsentrie appliance. As we continue to delve into its many features, we're seeing more and more opportunities to make use of its authentication and logging architecture.

Brad Robinson, Information Security Administrator for Postini

With the combination of superior authentication performance, a highly redundant architecture, and 24X7 support, A10's IDsentrie serviced all the event's authentication requests without a single issue, allowing Smart City to provide a seamless experience to all the network users at CES 2008.

David Langford, VP of Technology for Smart City

To properly control and secure From30's diverse network and business assets, we needed an identity management system that understands which users are accessing the development and account servers, in real-time, so that users without sanctioned access are not permitted on the network.

Kevin Im, CEO of From30