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64-bit Advantage Solution Brief
Load Balancing 101
AX Series Deployment Guides
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AX 5200 Solution Brief
AX Series Case Studies
AX Series White Paper
In the Press
ChannelWeb
2010 Channel Chiefs Network World
A10 Aims for the Cloud Techworld
A10 Set to Speed Traffic UpPress Releases
February 22, 2010:
A10 Networks Expands its AX Series Solutions with Large Scale NAT and Dual-Stack Lite January 19, 2010:
A10 Networks Unveils Cloud Computing and Virtualization Roadmap for Application Delivery - Features
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Application Delivery: Virtualization Options for Cloud Computing (1/10)
Global Server Load Balancing (12/09)
by Todd Harcourt, Systems Engineer
64-bit AX Series and ACOS (10/09)
New High Performance 64-bit Appliances
aFleX Advanced Scripting (6/09)
Introduction to the AX Series aFleX scripting tool,
which enables advanced, highly-flexible and efficient
Layer 7 traffic management. Introducing the AX 5200 (5/09)
Presented at Interop Las Vegas TMCnet (5/09)
AX 5200 Interview at Interop with Kelly LeBlanc AX 2000 Quick Look (4/08)
LBDigest's Quick Look at configuring AX 2000 New Generation Server Load Balancers (11/08)
Presented by John Huang Sr. System Engineer for NetworkWorld IT Roadmap San Francisco - Performance Reports
AX 3200 Report
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Read More AX 3200 with HTTP Caching
Scaling a Web site means running multiple back-end servers behind a sophisticated traffic management device to distribute the incoming load efficiently and to maximize the server farm performance...
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AX 3200 with HTTP Caching - Full Results in all Object Sizes
Powerpoint presentation file showing L7 Transactions Per Second with HTTP Caching Enabled and L7 Throughput in Gbps with HTTP Caching Enabled...
Read More VirtualN Running on AX 3200
Networks are constantly changing in response to evolving application delivery needs. Bandwidth intensive applications need high throughputs...
Read More
Video: New High Performance 64-bit Appliances
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The AX Series aXAPI is a REST-based Application Programming Interface (API) enabling remote interaction from third-party applications to control the server load balancer. The comprehensive set of instructions available allows management functions to be quickly integrated for maximum flexibility. For example, the third-party applications could simply pull statistics for remote display or react to changing server conditions by dynamically provisioning or de-provisioning resources automatically from AX Series. The innovative REST-based approach ensures simpler and quicker integration than other vendors’ options to guarantee implementation success. |
Innovate RESTful Approach to Allow Rapid Deployment
The aXAPI REST (Representational State Transfer) style XML API differs from other vendors using a traditional SOAP/XML style by:
- Being designed to use HTTPS with a request/response model to exchange data over HTTPS by default
- Allows commands to be issued by a simple, single-line HTTP command versus a complicated XML definition with many different object definitions
- Allows configuration of AX parameters and retrieval of AX statistics
The benefits of REST versus traditional SOAP/XML-based approaches (more complicated XML approach) are:
- Quicker implementation
- Less code
- Less complex
- Easier to understand, explain and support
The aXAPI also helps the network administrator and developers to communicate and integrate to solve the business issues quickly.
Streamline Processes and Solve Business Issues
With aXAPI, integration is possible for many different applications. Examples include:
- Integrate into Third-Party Applications
- Reporting
- Centralized configuration management
- Provisioning
- Custom Management Solutions
- Integrated into homegrown apps versus using the A10 CLI or Web GUI
- Customization enables limited commands sets to be granted as needed
- Interactive Infrastructure
- Applications can issue triggers to change traffic management behavior based on external events