A10 Networks Thunder ADC Primary Use Case

it_user1149558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Our primary use case is load balancing, from Layer 4 to Layer 7, on different partitions. And it's also our internet gateway router with our ISP. We're using the standard DDoS protection which is on the box itself.

We have about 91 virtual IP addresses we're load balancing at the moment.

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SN
Network Engineer IV at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The A10s that we have in Florida are being used for load balancing. We have a pair of A10s there, an active and a standby, and we are balancing the traffic between. We also use our A10s, in general, for provisioning wireless products. Eventually, we will use our new A10s for more stuff.

Our applications are hosted in a private on-premises data center, on public cloud in AWS, and in a hybrid cloud which is primarily public infrastructure.

Among our biggest security concerns are malicious code and DDoS attacks.

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SS
Network Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Load balance web traffic
  • Load balance application traffic
  • DDoS protection
  • Carrier Grade Network (CGN)

We have the ADC product, as well as the CGN.

We are using both the public and private deployment model. We are using AWS as our cloud provider.

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SatishBabu - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our company uses A10 Networks Thunder ADC for its load balancing capabilities.


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DC
User at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case is the application delivery controller part where we mainly use the server load balancing features to front-end our back-end servers to give us additional high availability, some resiliency, and some failures.

All our applications are hosted on a private on-premises data center. We run our own data center with VMware being the main virtualization platform. Then, running on top of VMware, we have Windows and Linux clusters, so x86 Windows and x86 Linux.

Our biggest security concerns are malicious code, user data theft, DDoS attacks, insider attacks, brand damage/loss of confidence, and phishing/fake sites. Hacking/cyber defacement is one of our concerns, but not the biggest. A lot of these security concerns are around data loss and data loss prevention. We are a pension institution, so we do not want to lose any of our member data. We have security things in place using the application firewalls, as an example, to help with our front-end sites. 

We are running virtual machines and currently doing a proof of concept with containers. However, we're not working with containers on-prem yet.

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PD
Business Partner at Sparrow Networks

Our clients are using it for their entire network. They have multiple networks across India. They are using it for application load balancing. 

They have multiple servers. 

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SD
Talent Acquisition Partner at Worldline Global

We use the solution for load balancing purposes.

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Rodrigo Américo - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Dock

Our company uses the solution to enhance our client's connection to their data centers. One data center is in Brasilia and the other is in Sao Paulo. The solution bolsters the connection between the data centers.  

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RM
VP, Web Services and Cyber Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for SLB and GSLB load balancing. We're using the Thunder ADC 1040 but before that we used their AX 2500.

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NC
Team Lead - Network and Security at Connex Information Technologies

A10 Networks Thunder ADC can be deployed on-premise or virtually.

A10 Networks Thunder ADC is used for global load balancing.

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HR
IT Head at Medi Assist

My primary use case is to use it as a software load balancer. 

Because of the industry that we operate in, we cannot use cloud. Therefore, we use it on-premise. We have 32 medium boxes, and that's what runs production.

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CB
Senior Network Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is server load balancing.

We use the on-premise deployment model.

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DC
IT Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees

We use it to load-balance the website.

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AM
Network Analyst at Alamo Colleges

We are using ADC for load balancing. Most of our enterprise applications are behind ADC.

It's on-premise.

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NAREK MOVSESYAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Digitain

We use A10 Networks Thunder ADC for the application delivery controller. 

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MQ
Network Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are in the government sector and we use this solution for load balancing and application management.

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BM
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case is for servicing a remote workforce. Especially these days when a lot of people are working remotely, a solution like this is important. We have to deploy applications and we do not necessarily want to upload the applications into the cloud or locally on desktops or laptops. ADC is really good for desktop virtualization and application delivery. Instead of having a full client, you look at a projection hosted in the data center. All the processing is being done back in the data center in the corporate domain. Because of the fact that the processing is not being taken care of locally, ADC is a very lightweight client that handles the feed on your laptop. It also enhances security.  

Everything is kept in the server room, not exported locally to someone's house or whatever location they are working in. You do not have to worry about securing the data. There are certain programs that you have to patch a lot, like Adobe Flash — which seems to always need a patch. Instead of doing that on all 100 laptops that are in the field, you just do it once in the data center and everybody uses that same version. That type of simplification for your deployments is another benefit of ADC.  

Because the maintenance is all happening at the data center, it is a lot more controlled and it is way easier. Another thing that this helps with is that only certain people get access to certain applications. The accountants are really the only ones who need access to the accounting software. It is really easy to set up groups based upon Active Directory and then define who gets access to those applications. That ability to limit access is really kind of cool and can potentially save money and licensing costs.  

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it_user848256 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Carrier-grade NAT is the purpose of using A10 Networks Thunder ADC at Turk Telekom Mobile.

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NC
Team Lead - Network and Security at Connex Information Technologies

We are distributors and have been for a long time. We provide products to clients.

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