SAN JOSE, CA, June 4, 2012 -- A10 Networks™, the leader in Application Networking, is powering portals, large media sites, web 2.0 companies, and ISPs for World IPv6 Day on June 6, 2012. With support for Server Load Balancing Protocol Translation (SLB-PT/SLB-64) and native IPv6, A10's flagship AX Series Application Delivery Controller (ADC) successfully powered millions of unique users for the inaugural event on June 8, 2011 with no reported issues. Demonstrating its continued commitment for IPv6 adoption, A10 offers comprehensive support to assist customers beyond World IPv6 Day. A10 also offers a unique opportunity for non-participants to test their IPv4 web sites live over IPv6 at no cost and no risk to production systems.
According to a recent Clear Choice Test published by Network World titled "IPv6 Enabled Application Delivery Controllers," A10's AX Series received the highest score for installation, feature set and manageability, and was recognized as the only vendor to include NAT64/DNS64, DS-Lite and 6rd, in addition to LSN/CGN (CGNAT), shipping today. All AX Series platforms are dual-stack ready, ensuring the maximum flexibility with IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, enabling both native support and the most advanced IPv4/IPv6 translation capabilities.
“World IPv6 Day offers A10 and our customers a global event to accelerate the awareness, testing and adoption of IPv6 networks for the second consecutive year,” said Lee Chen, Founder and CEO for A10 Networks. “Enthusiastic community support amongst our customers continues after last year’s inaugural event whereby IPv6 web site adoption increased by more than all of the previous years combined. We are taking a lead with our AX Series to participate in World IPv6 Day with benefits extending for years to come.”
AX Series solutions for World IPv6 Day and beyond include:
All AX Series features and functionality are available today.
Service Provider IPv6 Transition Resources: https://www.a10networks.com/products/thunder-series/thunder-cgn
A10’s AX Series is a scalable, high-performance Application Networking platform that delivers enterprises, Web properties and ISPs superior reliability and an energy efficient footprint for lower total cost of ownership (TCO). With the AX Series, customers of all sizes benefit from application availability, scalability and performance, and increased infrastructure efficiency for a faster end user experience. The AX Series has a comprehensive Layer 4-7 feature set and flexible virtualization technologies such as Virtual Chassis System (aVCS), multi-tenancy and more for public, private and hybrid cloud environments. In addition, the AX Series leads in IPv6 Migration technologies with many large scale deployments worldwide. All AX Series features are available without extra licensing fees.
AX Series delivers industry-leading return on investment (ROI) by leveraging A10's 64-bit Advanced Core OS (ACOS), with a scalable shared-memory parallelism architecture that leaps the competition in scalability and flexibility.
A10 Networks was founded in Q4 2004 with a mission to provide innovative networking and security solutions. A10 Networks makes high-performance products that help organizations accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. A10 Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. For more information, visit http://www.a10networks.com
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David Oro
Public Relations for A10 Networks
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