A10 Networks is a privately held company specializing in the manufacture of application delivery controller

Application delivery controller

An application delivery controller is a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves. Many also provide load balancing. They usually sit between the firewall/router and the web farm. The ADC is in...

s (software and hardware). Founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. was a networking hardware vendor selling high-end Ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA...

, A10 originally serviced just the identity management

Identity management

Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...

 market with its line of ID Series products. In early 2007 they added bandwidth management

Bandwidth management

Bandwidth management is the process of measuring and controlling the communications on a network link, to avoid filling the link to capacity or overfilling the link, which would result in network congestion and poor performance of the network.- Management :Bandwidth management mechanisms may be...

 appliances (EX Series).

In mid-2007, A10 Networks launched AX Series, a family of application delivery controller

Application delivery controller

An application delivery controller is a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves. Many also provide load balancing. They usually sit between the firewall/router and the web farm. The ADC is in...

s/load balancing

Load balancing (computing)

Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...

 appliances, which won Best of Show at Interop 2007 in the Network Infrastructure (middle range) category. In 2008 the AX Series won Grand Prix/Best of Interop Tokyo for best Carrier/Internet Service Provider (ISP) solution. In 2009, the AX Series won two Grand Prix/Best of Interop Tokyo awards in the Network Infrastructure and ShowNet Product categories. And in 2010, the 64-bit AX Series family of application delivery controllers won Best of Microsoft TechEd for Networking. In 2011, A10 Networks received an Inc. 500 award as a fast growth private company in North America for the second consecutive year, including #1 Computer Hardware vendor , Top 10 Internet company and an entrepreneur award for CEO Lee Chen.

Products and services

• The AX Series application delivery controller
  Application delivery controller
  An application delivery controller is a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves. Many also provide load balancing. They usually sit between the firewall/router and the web farm. The ADC is in...
  
  s consists of 12 models, including nine 64-bit and three 32-bit models. They feature Layer 4-7 server load balancing
  Load balancing (computing)
  Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...
  
   and application acceleration features and include a range of platforms that vary according to performance. All models include SSL ASIC off-load. Higher performance models add more hardware features, greater port density, more ASIC/FPGA technology and hardware based DDoS protection. With the introduction of new 64-bit appliances in October 2011, A10's flagship AX Series box, the AX 5200-11, achieves 4.5 million Layer 4 connections per second and 40 gigabits per second (gbps) throughput with 660 watts maximum power consumption. In 2010 a cloud computing and virtualization roadmap, SoftADC hypervisor based products (SoftAX and AX-V), a Virtual Chassis (aVCS) and Multi-tenancy features were announced.

• The EX Series is a bandwidth management appliance and consists of the EX 1100, and 2110. They products include identity reporting with Quality of service
  Quality of service
  The quality of service refers to several related aspects of telephony and computer networks that allow the transport of traffic with special requirements...
  
  and link load balancing. EX Series and ID Series integrate for additional identity tracking features.

• The ID Series 1100 is a network identity management appliance. It includes features for identity tracking, password management and RADIUS.