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A10 Networks Overview

A10 Networks Overview. R. John Forte, Director of Sales, Western Region 801.565.1121 Shawn Nunley, Director of Product Marketing. A10 Networks Overview. Corporate Statement: A10 Networks was founded with a mission to provide innovative networking and

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A10 Networks Overview

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  1. A10 Networks Overview R. John Forte, Director of Sales, Western Region 801.565.1121 Shawn Nunley, Director of Product Marketing

  2. A10 Networks Overview Corporate Statement: A10 Networks was founded 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. Founded by Lee Chen, the co-founder of Foundry Networks and Centillion Networks (acquired by Bay), A10 staffs experts from the Layer 2-3, Layer 4-7 and Super Computing markets. Product Suite: • AX Series Application Acceleration Switch/Next-generation Server Load Balancer • EX Series Bandwidth Management Appliance with Identity Reporting • ID Series Network Identity Management Appliances Headquarters in San Jose, CA Worldwide Sales Offices: • North America • China • Japan • Korea • Taiwan

  3. A10 Networks Timeline • Q4 2004: Founded by CEO Lee Chen. Executive staff from incumbent telecom and networking firms such as Cisco and Nortel • November 2005: Announced IDsentrie, the world’s first network identity management appliance • November 2006: Closed $9 million Series B Funding, bringing total funding to $16 million – and moved to hew HQ in San Jose • January 29, 2007: Announced AX Series application acceleration switch and EX Series bandwidth manager with identity • May 2007: Announced GA for AX Series - AX won Best of Interop Las Vegas • June 2007: AX Series won Best of Interop Tokyo • July 2007: Announced IDaccess for authentication and guest access

  4. A10 Product Portfolio

  5. Sample of Customers, Partners, Awards Customers Awards Partners

  6. The Drivers for Application Acceleration • Internet driven, media rich-communications • New performance and throughput demands • Global access to information anytime, anywhere • Conversion to Web applications • Increased security requirements • SSL Encryption • Protection from network attacks • Space & Efficiency • Future Mobility • Web 2.0 • IPv6

  7. Application Acceleration Landscape Market Leading System Large Historic Installed Base Little innovation in last 2 years Legacy Second-Generation Systems Historic Installed Base Old architecture PC or energy hungry hardware Legacy First-Generation Systems

  8. Award-winning AX Series Next-generation architecture • 10 years Server Load Balancer experience • Clean slate to create the architecture • 2 years ahead of all competitors • Engineered for scalable performance May 22, Las Vegas June 14, Tokyo

  9. AX Series: SLB and App. Acceleration Accelerated Application Performance • Industry’s best price-performance • Improves user response times by up to eight times • Reduces bandwidth by up to 75% • Industry’s best SSL and L4-7 acceleration Application Availability, Scalability and Flexibility • Super computing platform • Tuned for multi-CPUs with multi-cores • Carrier grade hardware • Scales server farm capacity by up to 10 times • Future proofs against changing business requirements with aRule scripting language • Supports IPv4 and IPv6 Integrated Application Security • Protects applications from DDoS attacks • Ensures application availability for legitimate traffic

  10. The AX Series Family AX 2000 AX 2100 AX 2200 AX 3100 AX 3200 Enterprise Processor: 2 CPU Memory: 2GB Gig Ports: 8 GoC Fiber Ports: 2 G SFP Enterprise Processor: 4 CPU Memory: 2GB Gig Ports: 8 GoC Fiber Ports: 4 G SFP Enterprise/ISP Processor: 4 CPU Memory: 2GB Gig Ports: 16 GoC Fiber Ports: 4 G opt SFP Enterprise/ISP Processor: 4 CPU Memory: 2GB Gig Ports: 16 GoC Fiber Ports: 4 G opt SFP 10 Gig Ports: 2 XFP ISP/Carrier Processor: 4 CPU Memory: 4GB Gig Ports: 16 GoC Fiber Ports: 4 G opt SFP 10 Gig Ports: 2 XFP

  11. Architecture Features & Benefits • Advanced Core OS (ACOS) • Tuned for multi-CPU • Near-zero overhead for linear scalability • Maximum parallelism • Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) shared memory architecture • Maximize application processing with traffic offload • Control data, network data, security data and buffer management • Hardware-based zero-copy buffer mgmt • Robust application data distribution • Non-block design (TCP stack, SSL stack) • Super efficient data kernel scheduler • Protocol Optimization

  12. More AX Series Features • aRule advanced scripting • IPv4 and IPv6 • Fast TCP, fast UDP load balancing • Server load balancing methods • Round Robin, Least Connections, Weighted RR, Weighted LC, Fastest Response Time • Server connection reuse (aka TCP multiplexing) • HTTP header insert, rewrite, compression • URL Switching, URL rewrite • Cookie Switching, cookie persistence

  13. More AX Series Features (cont.) • Cisco-like CLI, Localized Web GUI, aRule editor • Hot swappable redundant components - standard • SSL hardware acceleration • SSL termination, SSL bridging (aka SSL Initiation) • SSL session ID reuse • Hardware-based DoS Syn defense • Integrated Layer 2/Layer 3 • transparent, RIP, OSPF, static route • Active-active, active-standby stateful sessions failover • Source IP persistence

  14. Ease of use, management and migration • Industry standard CLI • Graphical User Interface (GUI) • aRule - TCL-based scripting • IP::client_addr, IP::protocol, TCP::server_port, TCP::payload, HTTP::uri, HTTP::header, HTTP::cookie, pool, drop, log

  15. Ease of use, management and migration • Industry standard CLI • Graphical User Interface (GUI) • aRule - TCL-based scripting • IP::client_addr, IP::protocol, TCP::server_port, TCP::payload, HTTP::uri, HTTP::header, HTTP::cookie, pool, drop, log

  16. Ease of use, management and migration • Industry standard CLI • Graphical User Interface (GUI) • aRule - TCL-based scripting • IP::client_addr, IP::protocol, TCP::server_port, TCP::payload, HTTP::uri, HTTP::header, HTTP::cookie, pool, drop, log

  17. EX Series: Bandwidth Mgmt. w/ Identity

  18. EX Series Key Features Instant WAN User and Application Visibility • Identity-Based Application Visibility for a variety of IM, file transfer and email apps • Identity-Based Bandwidth Reports • Integration with IDsentrie for IP-to-ID Quality of Service • Bandwidth Manager (QoS), Compression (site-to-site), Cache Redirection Load Balancing • Link Load Balancing and Firewall Load Balancing Security, Scalability and Reliability • Network IPS, SMP Architecture, Flexible Deployment Options, Consolidated Functionality, Simplified Management and High Availability

  19. World’s 1st Identity-Based Logging & Reporting Example with CIFS Protocol Example with Instant Messaging Protocols

  20. Identity-Based Top User Reports Dramatically accelerate troubleshooting and forensics! See “who is doing what and when” instantly… User Name & DNS Name Resolution

  21. EX Series Specifications Product Models: EX 2100 – Dual CPU with 8 GoC, 2 Gig over Fiber EX 2200 – Dual CPU with 12 GoC EX 1000 – P4 3.0GHz 1 MB Cache (entry-level 1U) Hardware Configuration (EX 2000 Series): • 2 U rack mount appliance • Redundant hard drives (160G) with Raid 1 mirroring • Hot swap redundant power supplies, removable smart fan • Dual Intel Xeon processors • SMP architecture with full OS support Performance: 2 Gbps, 1m connections, 60k-100k con/sec setup, EX 1000 (500Mbps) High Availability: Active-Standby Operational Modes: Route or Transparent Routing Protocols: OSPF, RIPv2, Static Route, NAT

  22. IDsentrie: Network Identity Management Appliance IDaccess: Authentication and Guest Access Appliance ID Series: Network Identity Management

  23. Includes Award-winning IP-to-ID Service ID Series’ IP-to-ID Service was voted a “Top Ten Product for Next Generation Network Infrastucture” – NetworkWorld, 2/19/07 Asad Sarabi, vice president of IT and logistics at Etón in Palo Alto, Calif. said: "When I see my network is slow or I have a problem, with A10’s IP-to-ID Service I can easily, within 10 or 15 minutes max, pinpoint what application, user and device are the cause."

  24. IP to ID IDsentrie GUI Example Login Activity Tracker Chronological tracking of user authentication activity by device, name, host and time Find-By-IP Enter IP Address and time range for search Search Results IDsentrie returns the user account and IP Lease information

  25. Summary – The A10 Advantage • Innovative company providing high-performance architectures and functional platforms for today and the future • Layer 4-7 expertise in the networking, security and identity management markets • Identity integration to simplify network management, security, and compliance

  26. Thank You - Questions? R. John Forte Director of Sales, Western Region 801.565.1121 : www.a10networks.com

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