A10 Networks, a provider of application networking and security, announced six new Thunder Series appliances, including the industry’s fastest single rack unit ADC. The new fourth-generation offerings expand customer choice for entry-level, upper mid-range and high-end appliances. The company’s portfolio of appliances provides even greater price/ performance, with scalability to 220 Gbps of traffic per second, 10.5 million connections per second, and defence for over 300 million DDoS attacks per second. The fourth-generation Thunder appliances scale and secure the most demanding data centre applications and networks.
The unrelenting growth of data centre traffic, the Internet of Things (IoT), and increased security requirements from mobile, cloud, and web is creating a continuous demand for higher performance and scalable data centre infrastructure solutions. The new Thunder Series appliances are based on A10’s innovative ACOS Harmony platform, which delivers industry-leading performance to price. All ACOS-based appliances leverage a data centre efficient design, consuming less power, cooling, and rack space – critically important metrics for organisations.
“We are seeing data centres needing to continuously scale to meet the traffic demands driven by major trends such as mobile, IoT, big data, and more demanding security policies; our customers require ever increasing scale, visibility, security and agility,” said Lee Chen, CEO of A10 Networks.
“A10’s new fourth-generation appliances provide substantially greater price performance relative to other products on the market, further extending our technology leadership over the competition. Today’s announcement of the industry’s fastest single rack-unit ADC continues this leadership with the advantage of the ACOS Harmony platform for true agility.”
High-end appliances (“S” appliances include SSL security processors)
- Thunder 7440(S), up to 220 Gbps in 1 RU, 48x10GbE, 4x40GbE, 36 cores, 3x FTA-4
- Thunder 6440(S), up to 160 Gbps in 1 RU, 48x10GbE, 4x40GbE, 16 cores, 3x FTA-4
- Available with Thunder Software: ADC, CGN, CFW and SSLi
Upper mid-range appliances (“S” appliances include SSL security processors)
- Thunder 5840(S), up to 115 Gbps in 1 RU, 24x10GbE, 4x40GbE, 18 cores, 2x FTA-4
- Thunder 5440(S), up to 100 Gbps in 1 RU, 24x10GbE, 4x40GbE, 12 cores, 2x FTA-4
- Thunder 4440(S), up to 80 Gbps in 1 RU, 24x10GbE, 4x40GbE, 6 cores, 2x FTA-4
- Available with Thunder Software: ADC, CGN, CFW and SSLi
Entry-level appliance
- Thunder 840, up to 5 Gbps in 1 RU, 5x1GbE, 2x10GbE, 8 cores
- Available with Thunder Software: ADC, CGN, CFW and SSLi
Pricing and availability
Prices for the new hardware appliances start at $14,995. All appliances are available now. For more information, please visit the Thunder Hardware Appliances page.
