{"id":6749,"date":"2016-03-07T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:58:53","slug":"a10-networks-announces-availability-of-thunder-convergent-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/03\/07\/a10-networks-announces-availability-of-thunder-convergent-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Global availability of A10&#8217;s Thunder Convergent Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">A10 Networks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has announced the worldwide availability of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/firewall\"><span class=\"s2\">Thunder Convergent Firewall<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(CFW), a standalone security product built on A10\u2019s ACOS Harmony platform. Thunder CFW is a converged security solution for service providers, cloud providers and large enterprises that includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>A high-performance Gi\/SGi firewall with integrated distributed denial of service (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/products\/ddos-protection\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>DDoS<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>) and<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/products\/carrier-grade-network-address-translation\"><span class=\"s2\">Carrier Grade NAT<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<b>(CGN) to protect mobile carriers\u2019 LTE infrastructure from increased security risk posed by advent of Internet of things (IoT) and 5G data services.<\/b>\u00a0The Thunder CFW Gi\/SGi firewall delivers up to 220 Gbps throughput, up to 268 million concurrent connections and up to 5 million connections per second in a one rack-unit appliance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>A high-performance data centre firewall (DCFW) with integrated DDoS protection and Server<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/products\/load-balancing\"><span class=\"s2\">Load Balancing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<b>(SLB) to protect data centre applications and infrastructure from network, Web application and multi-vector DDoS threats.<\/b>\u00a0The Thunder CFW data center firewall delivers up to 220 Gbps throughput, up to 268 million concurrent connections and up to 6.9 million connections per second in a one rack-unit appliance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>A high-performance Secure Web Gateway with integrated explicit proxy, URL filtering and SSL Insight.<\/b>\u00a0Ability to classify more than 13 billion URLs into 83 categories to provide outstanding scale and accuracy. Plus, superior decryption capabilities allow for a highly efficient solution with single pass\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/products\/thunder-series\/ssl-decryption-encryption-and-inspection-ssl-insight\"><span class=\"s2\">SSL decryption<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and SSL inspection for multiple devices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>A high-performance IPSec site-to-site VPN.<\/b>\u00a0Provides data privacy when traffic is transported between data centers. High-performance encryption enables organizations to scale for a hybrid cloud scenario. With the ability to encrypt over 100 Gbps of traffic, Thunder CFW unifies IPsec, firewall and load balancing in a highly efficient one rack-unit form factor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>aGalaxy Centralized Management System support for Thunder CFW.<\/b>\u00a0aGalaxy provides device management, configuration, reporting and troubleshooting for Thunder CFW.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are seeing early interest from our large installed base of customers for the Thunder Convergent Firewall. We believe Thunder CFW will prevent and contain some of the most demanding cyber security threats our customers face now and in the future. Today, I\u2019m pleased to announce its global availability,\u201d said Lee Chen, CEO of A10 Networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/rvjaqjcs\/www.a10networks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/A10-DS-15105-EN.pdf\">aGalaxy Centralized Management System<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0support for Thunder CFW will be available in Q2 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A10 Networks\u00a0has announced the worldwide availability of\u00a0Thunder Convergent Firewall\u00a0(CFW), a standalone security product built on A10\u2019s ACOS Harmony platform. 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