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AX Series - 64-bit Advantage Solution Brief ESG believes that IT priorities won't change much in 2010—CIOs will still be tasked to improve business processes while cutting costs. Can this be done? Yes, but it demands that large organizations look to consolidate resources, simplify the IT architecture, and seek out innovative vendors and solutions. ESG believes that A10 Networks fits this description—its new line of 64-bit Application Delivery Controllers has the potential to radically improve application performance while cutting capital and operating costs... Read More		Overview +/-
"A10 Ups the Ante" by Jon Oltsik, ESG A10 Networks is the first to market with true 64-bit application delivery and load balancing platforms, delivering its integrated 64-bit AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and 64-bit Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS), shipping today... Read More		Overview +/-
The End of IPv4? Migration paths to IPv6 For at least 10 years experts have been predicting exhaustion of the assignable IPv4 address space. The timeline for this prediction has never been exact, but an accelerated reduction in the IPv4 address space driven by sharp increase in demand is occurring. IPv6 removed the IP address scarcity by creating a new address space with vastly more potential addresses... Read More		Overview +/-
Blackboard Solution Brief The AX Series is a feature rich new generation Application Delivery Controller (ADC), featuring the Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS). ACOS guarantees extra head room to accommodate traffic surges, heavy Layer 7 application inspection and future traffic growth. The AX Series adds value to Blackboard environments in three key areas... Read More		Overview +/-
Virtualization Solution Brief Virtualization adoption has increased as business requires greater flexibility. The ability to scale up resources to respond to demand, or scale down for operational efficiency, promotes business agility. AX Series Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions help in both scenarios... Read More		Overview +/-
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Solution Brief Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is one of the most popular load balancing technologies today. A10's GSLB functionality is a key differentiator in the high-performance and highly scalable AX Series due to seamless implementation and exceptional value... Read More		Overview +/-
ACOS Technical Brief Today, business agility requires flexible application delivery platforms optimized for high-performance. However, high-performance deep packet inspection, application acceleration, and application off-load combined with more connection intensive technologies are driving legacy OS designs to their limits. A10's ACOS with true Scalable Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SSMP) is the solution... Download		Overview +/-
DNS Protection: DNS Amplification Mitigation As the Internet has evolved, so have the attacks on its infrastructure. Each piece of critical infrastructure used by a typical user must be secured. Sporadic outages of key services can damage reputations and consumer confidence, and are thus not tolerated. Outage of the critical DNS (Domain Name System), used to resolve friendly domain names to IP addresses, is no exception... Read More		Overview +/-
AX 5200 Advanced Traffic Manager: New Generation Application Delivery for Data Centers With the introduction of the AX 5200, powered by the award-winning Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS), the rules of the performance game are changed. The AX 5200 constitutes the most advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) today, combining performance, high port density, energy savings and space savings... Read More		Overview +/-
Network Address Translation (NAT): Traditional NAT, Emerging NAT Standards and Related Technologies In the past two decades, IP networks have evolved and the number of IP-enabled devices soared at a tremendous pace. Globally unique IPv4 addresses are in great demand and IPv4 address exhaustion has been observed since the mid-1990s. NAT (Network Address Translation) became a popular tool for alleviating the IPv4 address exhaustion... Read More		Overview +/-
Ensuring Service: Rate and Connection Limiting Server availability to fulfill requests and responsiveness to clients are essential for computing transactions, especially for Web-based transactions. Outages are not tolerated and 99.999% uptime expectations are now normal... Read More		Overview +/-
IPv6: High-Performance IPv4/IPv6 Gateway With IPv6 as the designated successor to IPv4, enterprises and service providers are evaluating products and solutions to enable a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6. To handle IPv6's larger address space and resources, and ensure forward and backward compatibility with legacy IPv4 systems, a high-performance IPv4/IPv6 gateway is required... Read More		Overview +/-
A10 Networks and Extreme Networks - Performance, Security and Reliability Extreme Networks and A10 Networks products work in conjunction to meet these requirements. A recent example in a third party lab test* using a high performance BlackDiamond® 8806 switch along with the AX 3200 server load balancer showed superior performance without bottlenecks and demonstrated an industry leading fi gure in excess of 34 Gbps of aggregate traffi c for a single load balanced virtual IP address. Both the AX 3200 and the Extreme BlackDiamond line have been designed with high-performance in mind by... Read More		Overview +/-
A10 Networks and Imperva - Web Acceleration and Security without Compromise A10 Networks and Imperva work together to provide customers with best of breed Web acceleration and security products. With A10 and Imperva, there is no need to compromise security for the sake of acceleration... Read More		Overview +/-
A10 Networks and Juniper Networks - Load Balancing to Provide Scalable, Reliable, Secure Access Solutions A combined solution using Juniper Networks Secure Access and A10 Networks AX Series provides optimal SSL VPN service. The access and security features of Secure Access are easily extended to a quickly expanding mobile workforce by deploying AX Series server load balancers. AX Series load balancers add the following benefits to a Secure Access solution... Read More		Overview +/-
A10 Networks and VMWare - Reduce Application Delivery Cost, Increase Flexibility and Efficiency Jointly deployed, VMware's server virtualization solutions and A10's AX Series server load balancers can reduce hardware costs and improve the customer experience, all while providing infrastructure that can accommodate unforeseen spikes in load. The AX Series is a perfect complement to VMware, offering twice the performance at half the price of competing solutions on the market today. Deployment of VMware maximizes server hardware resources... Read More		Overview +/-
New Paradigm in Application Delivery Networking: Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) and Multi-CPU Architecture In today's business environment, companies rely heavily on Web-based applications to communicate and conduct transactions both externally and internally. With more people accessing Websites via smart phones, new third party applications, news sites, blogs, social networking and video and picture Websites, Internet traffic to Websites continues to increase significantly, and shows no signs of slowing down. More and more processing power is being required at data aggregation points such as load balancers and application delivery controllers... Read More		Overview +/-

EX Series Documentation Downloads

EX Series: Identity-based Bandwidth Control User Identity-based and Deep Packet Inspection for Protocol and Application Control Utilizing the ID Series identity tracking with IP-to-ID functionality ensures user to IP resolution from almost any user database is retrieved and normalized into an accessible list in near real-time. Sources of data can be Microsoft Active Directory or any LDAP compliant directory, remote access VPN devices, wireless access points, network switches using port-based authentication, UNIX variants or SQL database applications... Read More		Overview +/-
Controlling the Network Edge to Accommodate Increasing Demand A common trend in today's distributed work environment is to centralize applications and the data previously hosted in individual branch offices. The driving factor for this centralization is the need to simplify management of the application infrastructure, which in turn helps to reduce cost and increase overall control and performance. While there are clear benefits with such a model, this centralization also comes with its share of challenges for those responsible for the application and network infrastructure... Read More		Overview +/-

ID Series Documentation Downloads

A10 Networks and TippingPoint - Optimizating Security and Network Operations Together, TippingPoint's SMS management console and A10's ID Series of appliances with IP-to-ID technology simplify critical network monitoring and identity correlation - streamlining the optimization of security and network operations into one process... Read More		Overview +/-
A10 Networks and RSA - Increasing Network Security and Visibility Together, A10 Networks' IDsentrie network identity management appliance and RSA's Authentication Manager combine identity-based monitoring with 2 factor authentication to increase network security and visibility... Read More		Overview +/-
Simplified User Self-Help Service IDsentrie provides several key technologies to simplify password resets and automate user account management activities. User Self-Help Service empowers users with the ability to update passwords, reset locked accounts, recover lost passwords, and change account profile information. Combined with IDsentrie's Central Password Policy, Password Synchronization, and Password Expiration Notification technologies, customers can create sophisticated and easy-to-use IAM solutions to maximize efficiency... Read More		Overview +/-
IP-to-ID Service for Instant User Identity Resolution IDsentrie's IP-to-ID Service is a revolutionary technology designed to automate identity resolution by seamlessly integrating with existing networking and security devices as well as logging and reporting systems. The Ip-to-ID Service minimizes troubleshooting and forensic efforts and helps to ease compliance and internal control requirements... Read More		Overview +/-
Accelerated Authentication Management IDSentrie's standard-based AAA RADIUS authentication services support all of the latest strong authentication protocols and popular 3rd party data stores. IDSentrie provides strong authentication service for all types of access: wireless LAN, wired LAN, VPN, Dial-up, applications, and more. Authentication activities are controlled by flexible and granular policies to strictly control access and detailed logging and reporting tracks all user access and authentication activity for auditing compliance... Read More		Overview +/-
Consolidated Data Store Management IDSentrie's Unified IDentity Manager (UIM) solves the complexities and security concerns of managing multiple data stores throughout the enterprise. UIM provides the ability to fully consolidate all user account information from multiple disparate data stores and directory services into one corporate-wide Virtual Directory service that can be centrally managed... Read More		Overview +/-
Correlated Identity Management IDSentrie's IDentity Event Manager (IEM) creates a new paradigm for forensic activity and is the industry's first true identity-based correlation engine for security and networking devices. By forwarding critical event logs from security and networking devices to IDSentrie, administrators can resolve uninformative MAC & IP addresses to user identity information in real-time or through historical logs and reports... Read More		Overview +/-
Fingering Culprits Faster and Better: A10's IP-to-ID Service, By Lisa Phifer, Core Competence Overview Network surveillance systems and forensics tools have long used IP addresses to identify the source of trouble, attack, or abuse. Quickly correlating each IP address to an individual user is absolutely critical for incident response, threat containment, troubleshooting, and compliance reporting. However, manual IP-to-ID mapping can be tedious, time consuming -- even impossible. Learn now A10's IP-to-ID service and help automate identity resolution and eliminate information gaps to speed identity forensics... Read More About Lisa Phifer Lisa Phifer, Vice President of Core Competence Inc., has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for 25 years. At Core Competence, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. She teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Business Communications Review, Information Security Magazine, and SearchNetworking. Her monthly Mobile Innovator column is published by SearchMobileComputing.		Overview +/- About Lisa Phifer
Factors Driving the Need for Network Identity Management Solutions At the forefront of challenges for today's IT organizations is that of managing the ever growing base of users and user accounts. This integral part of every organization creates the foundation which dictates the resources that users can access spanning from the network to e-mail to the variety of daily business applications. Having a well thought out plan for managing the user account infrastructure helps with user access to network resources as well as efficiencies in IT and supporting teams which translates into saving time and money. The A10 Networks IDsentrie is a network identity management appliance, purpose built to simplify an organizations' identity management infrastructure... Read More		Overview +/-
Identity Management and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Corporate and government regulations are now demanding tougher accountability and internal controls. A10 Networks' Smart IDentity Management solution addresses the Sarbanes-Oxley and COBIT compliance requirements with regards to controlling, monitoring, and auditing access and helps strengthen IT control and reporting functions... Read More		Overview +/-
Identity Management ROI Calculation Case Study Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical technology for properly managing identity resources. With a well implemented IAM system, businesses achieve stronger management control of their identity resources, robust mechanisms to control network access, and enhanced tools to meet tough compliance reporting, logging, and record retention. Learn how to justify ROI for two of the most popular identity management solutions... Read More		Overview +/-

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