Application Delivery
and Load Balancing
High-performance advanced load balancing solution that enables your applications to be highly available, accelerated, and secure
Key Benefits of Thunder Application Delivery Controller
Key Features of Thunder Application Delivery Controller
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Advanced Load Balancing
- Complete full-proxy Layer 4 load balancer and Layer 7 load balancer with flexible aFleX® scripting and customizable server health checks
- High performance SSL Offload with up-to-date SSL/TLS ciphers enabling optimized and secure application service
- Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) extends load balancing on a global basis to enable worldwide business application continuity with faster, localized server responses
- All-inclusive ADC features
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Flexible Deployment Options
- Application Delivery Partitions (ADP) allows 1,000-plus partitions offering the highest-density, multi-tenant solutions
- Thunder ADC is a family of hardware and software, including virtual and Bare Metal, solutions ready to match a wide variety of deployment needs
- A10 FlexPool, consumption-based licensing, enables license portability across multiple clouds and environments
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Performance Acceleration
- Effectively offload CPU intensive SSL transactions from servers with SSL Offload with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) ciphers including Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
- Content caching, compression and TCP optimization combine to expedite content transfer for enhanced application performance
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Integrated Security
- Enhance application security with integrated ICSA certified WAF and DDoS Protection
- Application access management (AAM) for Single Sign-on (SSO) or extra authentication security
- DNS server protection with DNS application firewall
- A10 Threat Intelligent Service (optional subscription) available for instantly blocking malicious traffic
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Analytics and Management
- Integrate with the Harmony™ Controller for Layer 4 / Layer 7 visibility into user experiences, traffic profiles and server health to troubleshoot and proactively ensure service
- Fully programmable with REST-based aXAPI® enabling integration with SDN and NFV environment
Network Traffic Management and Analytics
Get L4-7 visibility into user experiences, traffic profiles, and server health. Centrally manage application services and administrative capabilities. And configure policies through a single pane of glass — regardless of where your application services are deployed.
Additional Options
Additional services, products, solutions you may be interested in.
Harmony Controller
Simplify operations and increase agility. Centrally- manage policies for application services. Automate with APIs and orchestration systems. Comprehensive per-application analytics.
Lightning™ Application Delivery Controller (ADC)
Cloud-native application load balancing and traffic management, security and per-app analytics for workloads in public cloud, private cloud or hybrid clouds
Case Study
Delta Dental Optimizes Applications and Simplifies Operations
Challenge
Lacked single pane-of-glass management to assure application availability, performance and integrated security for dental practice software and e-commerce websites.
Solution
Delta Dental chose Thunder Application Delivery Controller in conjunction with the Harmony Controller. This allowed them to work smarter, helping dentists to process claims and verify eligibility quickly, to simplify IT operations and to increase agility of the DevOps team with centralized software-defined functions.
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