Leading Online Gaming Provider Chooses A10 Networks' AX Series Advanced Traffic Manager...

Leading Online Gaming Provider Chooses A10 Networks' AX Series Advanced
Traffic Manager to Boost Application Performance
AX Series Delivers Game Flier a Next-generation Server Load Balancing Solution
for High-volume Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks(R) today announced
that Game Flier, a leading online gaming provider in Taiwan, chose two of
A10's AX 2100 Advanced Traffic Managers to maximize application availability,
scalability and performance; and enhance its end users' online gaming
experience. The AX 2100 is one of A10's five next-generation server load
balancer models, delivering a scalable platform capable of handling
high-volume applications such as Game Flier's gigabit throughput online gaming
Web portal system.
With 300 employees, 10,000 to 20,000 users online at any given time and a
growing user base, Game Flier needed a highly reliable and scalable Web
Application Delivery platform to limit bottlenecks from online gaming
customers to its systems. To meet this need, Game Flier desired the highest
performance server load balancer solution on the market at the most
competitive price. In a recent independent third-party test report from the
Tolly Group, A10's AX 2100 was determined to deliver four to ten times the
performance at less than half the price of F5's BIG-IP 3400.
"We chose A10's AX Series because it is the best price/performance server
load balancer on the market and the first in the Web application delivery
market that is tuned for multi-core CPU systems to receive the performance
benefits of modern hardware architectures," said Mr. Rick Ku, MIS assistant
chief at Game Flier. "The A10 team is staffed with Layer 4-7 networking
experts that carefully designed the server load balancing solution for our
exact high-performance network and gaming Web portal needs."
A10 Networks' AX Series family helps enterprises of all sizes and ISPs
build secure, high availability application server farms. Key features within
the AX Series include:
-- Revolutionary Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS):
-- Leverages modern system architectures.
-- Tuned for multi-core CPUs.
-- aRule(TM) scripting language for flexible traffic management without
performance degradation.
-- Industry's best SSL and Layer 4-7 price/performance.
-- Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
-- Carrier-grade hardware components and redundancy.

"We are proud to provide Game Flier with A10's award winning AX 2100 as it
continues to extend its popular online gaming systems," said Lee Chen,
president and CEO of A10 Networks. "The AX 2100s are highly-affordable,
reliable and scalable, next-generation appliances that deliver a significant
price/performance advantage for the Web application delivery market."
Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS): Optimized Multi-CPU Architecture
The Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) -- built by A10's team of
distinctive engineers with high performance Layer 2-3, Layer 4-7 and super
computing expertise - is the distinguishing technology that makes the AX
Series stand out in the Web Application Delivery Controller market. Many of
the incumbent vendors' solutions are based on legacy architecture not designed
to address the greater scale of Internet traffic and security requirements --
for today and tomorrow. In order to address the need for speed, vendors
continue to move their single-CPU software solutions to more powerful
multi-CPU traffic management systems. But without the complete redesign of the
software, performance benefits as a result of more powerful hardware will
never be realized.
A10's AX Series with ACOS includes an optimized multi-CPU architecture,
built from the ground up. It has maximum per-CPU independence with near zero
interference among CPUs. ACOS linearly and concurrently scales processing
resources in true parallel fashion. By evenly distributing application traffic
to the system's processors, ACOS eliminates performance bottlenecks caused by
unevenly loaded processors - allowing applications to perform as desired,
especially during peak usage conditions.
To read the full case study regarding Game Flier's successful AX Series
deployment, visit:
http://www.a10networks.com/resources/files/CS-GamerFlier.pdf
For more information about A10's AX Series Advanced Traffic Management
switches, visit: http://www.a10networks.com/products/axseries.html
About A10 Networks
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, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. For more information, visit
http://www.a10networks.com.
SOURCE A10 Networks

Kelly LeBlanc of A10 Networks, +1-408-325-8668, kleblanc@a10networks.com