A10 Networks® AX ADC product line of high-performance, next-generation application delivery controllers enable customers’ applications to be highly available, accelerated and secure.

AX Series is an ADC product line, delivering up to 100 Gbps of throughput in a single appliance or 1.7 Tbps of throughput in a cluster, the broadest range of form factors (physical, virtual, Bare Metal, and hybrid), and with expanded system resources designed to support future feature needs.  The A10 AX product line is built upon A10’s Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®) platform, with Symmetric Scalable Multi-Core Processing (SSMP) software architecture that delivers high performance and a range of deployment options for dedicated, hosted or cloud data centers. 

Whether you are an enterprise, service provider or Web giant, A10 AX ADC offers key benefits to make your data center applications available, accelerated and secure.  It can provide the following features and services:

• Server Load Balancing

• DDoS Mitigation

• WAF

• GSLB

• SSL Offload

• Traffic Steering

• aFleX Scripting

Features:

Application Delivery Features

• Comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Support
• Advanced Layer 4/Layer 7 Server Load Balancing
  • Fast HTTP, Full HTTP Proxy
  • High-performance, template-based Layer 7 switching with header/URL/domain manipulation
  • Comprehensive Layer 7 application persistence support
• Comprehensive load balancing methods
  • Round Robin, Least Connections, Weighted RR, Weighted LC, Fastest Response, & more
• aFleX - allows deep packet inspection and transformation for customizable, application-aware switching
• Advanced Health Monitoring
  • Comprehensive Protocol Support - ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, DNS, RADIUS, LDAP, & more
  • TCL Scriptable Health Check support
  • High Availability - Active-Active, Active-Standby configurations with sub-second failover
  • SIP Load Balancing for VoIP and other rich-media applications
  • STARTTLS support for Secure Email (POPS, SMTPS, IMAPS) & LDAPS
• Spam Filter Support - allows high-speed application of very large black/ white lists
• Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
• Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
• Transparent Cache Switching (TCS)
• Link Load Balancing (LLB)
• Diameter AAA Load Balancing

Acceleration & Security Features

• HTTP Acceleration & Optimization
  • HTTP Connection Multiplexing
  • HTTP Caching
  • HTTP Compression
• SSL Acceleration
  • Hardware-based SSL Offload
  • Support for all TCP Protocols - SSL Termination, SSL Bridging (SSL Initiation)
  • TLS 1.2 and 4096-bit SSL key support
• SSL Session ID Reuse
• Hardware-based SYN Cookies, IP Anomaly Detection
• Connection Rate Limiting/Connection Limiting
• DNS Application Firewall
• SSL Intercept

High Performance, Scalable Platform

• ACOS Operating System
  • Multi-core, Multi-CPU support
  • Linear Application Scaling
  • Linux on Control Plane
• ACOS on Data Plane

Networking

• Integrated Layer 2/Layer 3
• Transparent Mode/ Gateway Mode
• Routing - Static Routes, IS-IS (v4/v6), RIPv2/ng, OSPF v2/v3, BGP4+
• VLAN (802.1Q)
• Trunking (802.1AX), LACP
• Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Traditional IPv4-->IPv4 NAT/NAPT
• IPv6-->IPv6 NAPT
• Jumbo frame support

IPv6 Migration/IPv4 Preservation

• Full native IPv6 management and feature support
• SLB-PT (Protocol Translation), SLB-64 (IPv4<->IPv6, IPv6<->IPv4)
• Application Level Gateways (ALGs) for FTP, TFTP, RTSP, PPTP, SIP, ICMP, DNS, ESP
• Carrier Grade NAT (CGN), Large Scale NAT (LSN), NAT444, NAT44, NAT46*
• NAT64/DNS64, DS-Lite, 6rd

Management

• Dedicated Management Interface (Console, SSH, Telnet, HTTPS)
• Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Language Localization
• Industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
• SNMP, Syslog, Email Alerts
• Port Mirroring
• REST-style XML API (aXAPI)
• LDAP, TACACS+, RADIUS Support

Virtualization

• aVCS (AX Virtual Chassis System)
• SoftAX Virtual Appliance (separate)
• Multi-tenancy with Application Delivery-Partitions (ADPs)
  • Role Based Administration (RBA)
  • Partition Based Management
  • L2/L3 Virtualization
• Hypervisor Acceleration and Management Integration

Carrier-grade Hardware

• Advanced hardware architecture
• Redundant Power Supplies (2+1)
• AC or DC Power Supplies
• Smart Fans (hot swap)
• Solid-state drive (SSD) and Compact Flash
• High Port Density
• 40 Gb, 10 Gb, 1 Gb Ports
• Tamper Detection
• Lights Out Management (LOM/IPMI)