TechValidate Research on A10 Networks

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise telecommunications services company is based on a January 2020 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select A10 Networks:

• Primary reasons for purchasing products from A10 Networks:
  • To reduce operating and hardware costs
  • To consolidate networking equipment

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of A10 Networks that the surveyed company uses:

• Owns the following A10 products:
  • Thunder CGN (IPv4 Preservation and IPv6 Migration)
• Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
  • IPv6 Migration / IPv4 Preservation

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

• Accomplished the following using A10 products:
  • Reduced costs for the IT infrastructure
• Realized a positive ROI after 24 months after using A10 products.
• Estimates improvements in in the following areas:
  • Increased performance: 75% or more
  • Lowered OpEx: 50% to 74%
  • Lowered CapEx: 50% to 74%
• Rates the following from A10 when compared to competitive products:
  • Features: superior
  • Performance/scalability: much better
  • Usability/deployment speed: superior
  • Reliability: superior
  • Quality of support: superior

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise telecommunications services company is based on a January 2020 survey of A10 Networks customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select A10 Networks:

• Primary reasons for purchasing products from A10 Networks:
  • To protect servers and applications from advanced security threats
  • To deploy new and/or differentiated services

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of A10 Networks that the surveyed company uses:

• Owns the following A10 products:
  • Thunder ADC (Application Delivery and Load Balancing)
  • Thunder TPS (DDoS Protection)
• Uses the following in conjunction with A10 products:
  • Web servers / Web application servers

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with A10 Networks:

• Accomplished the following using A10 products:
  • Improved application delivery performance
  • Improved network security posture
• Replaced the following vendors/solutions with A10 products:
  • KEMP Technologies
  • Radware
• Realized a positive ROI within 12-18 months after using A10 products.
• Estimates improvements in the following areas:
  • Increased performance: 50% to 74%
  • Lowered OpEx: 10% to 24%
  • Lowered CapEx: 10% to 24%