Leading Canadian University Deploys A10's AX Series to Scale Application Delivery...

Leading Canadian University Deploys A10's AX Series to Scale Application
Delivery for Blackboard Education Learning System
AX Series Delivers McMaster University a Flexible Application Delivery
Controller to Increase Availability and Performance for Blackboard Academic
Suite 8 and Blackboard Vista 8

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A10 Networks(R) today announced that
McMaster University, located in Ontario, Canada, has deployed A10's AX Series
Advanced Traffic Managers to ensure its Blackboard online education learning
system is highly available with non-stop performance. McMaster leverages the
latest online technology for success, and recently upgraded to Blackboard
Academic Suite 8 and Blackboard Vista 8 for comprehensive e-Learning, course
and student management. The AX Series was selected as McMaster's Application
Delivery Controller platform to accelerate, load balance and solve key
functional issues regarding the online applications.

"We researched the leading Application Delivery Controller solutions on the
market and were impressed to learn we could deploy A10's AX Series for the
most superior performance at the best price," said Herman Poon, systems
administrator at McMaster University. "The AX Series is particularly useful as
it can load balance the application server clusters within the two Blackboard
applications. I recommend A10's AX Series as a key component for online
learning infrastructures."

McMaster University's compelling reasons for choosing A10's AX Series resulted
from advanced application delivery requirements, core server load balancing
functionality and superior technical support. The AX Series is deployed to
perform web server load balancing across the Blackboard application servers;
Layer 7 deep packet inspection for added security and ASIC SSL acceleration to
off-load compute intensive functions for performance advantages. The key
distinguishing AX Series feature was internal load balancing between the
Blackboard Academic Suite and Vista application cluster servers for internal
communication.

Additional key features within the AX Series include:
-- Revolutionary Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) to provide the
most
scalable server load balancing solutions
-- Comprehensive Layer 4-7 features and performance, SSL acceleration,
hardware compression and RAM Caching at a cost-effective price

-- Superior reliability and redundancy through comprehensive
application-layer health checks and load-balancing algorithms, while
running on a platform with carrier-grade hardware components

"We are proud that McMaster University is able to uniquely increase
availability and performance for its Blackboard online learning management
system with the help of our AX Series," said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10
Networks. "The AX Series provides a competitive advantage for the rapidly
growing online education market by solving key implementation issues and
delivering faster, better and greener application delivery solutions."

A10 Networks will demonstrate the AX Series at BlackBoard World, July 14-16,
in Washington DC, in booth #408.

To read the full case study, please visit:
http://www.a10networks.com/resources/files/CS-McMaster.pdf

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, Europe, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. For more
information, visit http://www.a10networks.com

About McMaster University
McMaster University, one of four Canadian universities listed among the Top
100 universities in the world, is renowned for its innovation in both learning
and discovery. It has a student population of 23,000, and more than 145,000
alumni in 128 countries. For more information, visit http://www.mcmaster.ca/

SOURCE A10 Networks

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