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Customer Driven Innovation

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Dynamic L4-7 Services for OpenStack Cloud Data Centers

May 2014

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A10 Networks Portfolio Overview

Dedicated

Network

Managed

Hosting Cloud IaaS

IT Delivery Models

Application Networking Platform

Performance

Scalability

Extensibility

Flexibility

Security

CGN TPS

ADC

ACOS Platform

Product Lines

ADC – Application Acceleration & Security

CGN – Service Provider Networking

TPS – Network Perimeter DDoS Security

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A10 Corporate Introduction

54.7M

$91.5M

$120M

$142M

2010 2011 2012 2013

1,000+

2,000+

3,000+

Q4' 11 Q4' 12 Today

CUSTOMER GROWTH

COMPANY GROWTH

Headquarters in San Jose

650 Employees Offices in 23 countries Customers in 65 countries

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Challenges with Legacy L4-L7 Services

• Static

• Inflexible

• Manually Provisioned

• Dynamic Service Provisioning

• Automation and Scalability

• Operational Agility

Challenges

Demands

DDoS

WAF

QoS

SLB

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NOW: Dynamic Services

Application Service Evolution: Dynamic L4-L7 Services

BEFORE: Isolated Services

On Demand Consumption Multi-tenant Scale out Architecture

POLICY

DRIVEN

INFRASTRUCTURE

…

IPS

IDS FW SLB

Dynamic L4-L7 Services

…

.

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IaaS Cloud DC needs: Any Server, Any Network, Any Time

Virtualized Shared Infrastructure

Physical Compute + L2/3 Network Infrastructure

SDN Network Fabric

Compute Network Storage

Dynamic L4-L7 Service Chaining

Cloud

Orchestration

Platform

SDN Controller

Cloud

Tenants

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What is Dynamic Service Chaining?

Services

Application Gateway OS

Platform

ACOS

A10 Thunder/AX/VHA or vThunder

VMWare, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM, EC2 (IaaS)

Coke

ADC

Security

App 1

Pepsi

ADC

IPv6

App 2

Tenant N

WanOp

VPN

App N

…..

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Dynamic L4-L7 Services Design Requirements

Agility Scale Reduced TCO

• Agile Service Delivery

– Simplified consumption model

• Programmability

– Scale consistently across governance domains

– Integration with SDN and Cloud Orchestration platforms

• Application Delivery at Scale

– Multi-tenancy

– Linearly scale performance

• Consistent Services

– Enforce SLAs

– Ensure Compliance and Security in a shared infrastructure environment

• Metered Consumption

– Consume and pay per business requirements

• Simplified management

– Automation

– Efficient Resources

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Introducing aCloud Services Architecture

New product form factors and licensing models to

address new IT consumption models

• High Performance Appliances

• Virtualized & Hybrid Appliances

• Pay-as-You-Go Licensing Support

• SDN Integration

• Cloud Orchestration Integration

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High Performance Appliances

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ACOS Flexible Form Factors for all IT Consumption Models

Dedicated Data

Centers

Managed Hosting,

SP

Cloud IaaS, SP

Common

Features &

Admin Across

Form Factors

vThunder

Virtual Appliance

Thunder Series

Application Delivery Partitions

Pay-as-You-Go Licensing

Thunder HVA vThunder

Virtual Appliance

vThunder

Virtual Appliance

aVCS - Virtual

Chassis System

Thunder Series

Rent (RBM) Utility (UBM)

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ACOS Platform: Scaling Application Networking with Moore’s Law

Extremely Efficient Network Pre-Processing*:

Hardware-Assisted L2-4 Pre-Processing

Optimized Hardware-Assisted Flow Distribution

Hardware-Assisted Security Functions Performed

* Hardware Assist Features Available on Most Thunder Appliances

Highly Scalable Application-Layer Processing:

Scalable Symmetric Multi-Processing

Unique Shared Memory Architecture

Linear Growth in Scale via Parallel Processing

Low-Value Services:

Forwarding, Segmentation

High-Values Services:

Optimization, Availability, Security

Application

OSI Reference Model

Presentation

Session

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical

MAC: f4:f9:51:f0:d5:9d

IP: 192.168.1.1

MAC: f4:f9:51:f0:d5:9d

IP: 192.168.1.1

Shared Memory Architecture

1 2 3 N

Flexible Traffic Accelerator

Switching and Routing

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ACOS Platform: High Performance Application Networking

Shared Memory Architecture

1 2 3 N

Flexible Traffic Accelerator

Switching and Routing

Efficient &

Accurate Memory

Architecture

64-Bit Multi-Core

Optimized

Optimized

Flow Distribution

Application

Acceleration

Application

Security

Application

Availability

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Licensing Models

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Other vThunder Appliances and Flexible Billing Options

vThunder Pay-as-You-Go Licensing

Elastic & adaptive

“Pay-as-you-Go” metering

Automated licensing

For IaaS providers only

License per Month

Rent (RBM) Utility (UBM)

License per Byte

vThunder for AWS

10 Mbps to 1 Gbps licensing

1 click provisioning of 64-bit Amazon

Machine Image (AMI)

EC2 or VPC environments

No feature limitations; licensed by

bandwidth

BYOL perpetual license or hourly based

license

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OpenStack Integration

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aCloud Service Architecture: OpenStack Integration

Compute Networking Storage

Nova Neutron Cinder

Openstack Cloud APIs

Horizon Dashboard

A10 ACOS Appliances

Physical, HVA and Virtual

Client Application

A10 LBaaS Driver

REST API

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aCloud Service Architecture: OpenStack Integration

Driver 1

Driver 2 LBaaS

Agent

Driver 1 Driver 2 A10 LBaaS Driver

LBaaS Neutron Advanced Service Plugin

Asynchronous Message Queue

LBaaS Neutron

Extension Rest API

Synchronous Core API

NOVA

(Compute)

CINDER

(Block Storage) Neutron

REST

SWIFT

(Object Storage)

Client

Application Horizon

(Dashboard)

REST REST

Gla

nce

(Ima

ge

Se

rvic

e)

Ke

ysto

ne

(Au

the

ntic

atio

n)

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aCloud Services Architecture

aCloud

Pay-As-You-Go

LLM

aCloud

Pay-As-You-Go

GLM

aGalaxy

Policy

Mgmt

Thunder-HVA

Hybrid Appliances

Thunder Series

Physical Appliances

SDN Fabric

vThunder Virtual Appliances

VXLAN

SSL-Offload

DDoS

SLB

Content Optimiz. WAF

NVGRE

SLB

SSL-Offload

Content Opt.

WAF

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aCloud Services Value Proposition

SCALE

• Support Operational needs for

multi-tenancy & virtualization

• Drive L4-7 Service Chaining to

Tenant/ Workload

• Consistent Services to enforce

SLA, Compliance and Security

REDUCED TCO

• Enable Pay-as-You-Go IaaS

for End Users

• Reduced Manual Change

Management Tasks for IT

• Efficient resource utilization

AGILITY

• Support Rapid Response to

Internal / External Needs

• Automated System

Provisioning via Cloud/SDN

• Programmability to ensure

consistent scale across

domains

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