Thunder ADC
Application Delivery

A10 Thunder Series is a family of hardware and software appliances ready to match any deployment need. Each Thunder Series form factor is powered by ACOS software, which brings a unique combination of shared memory accuracy and efficiency, 64-bit scalability and advanced flow processing.

Thunder ADC is A10 Networks premium ADC product line, delivering up to 220 Gbps of throughput in a single appliance or 1.7 Tbps of throughput in a cluster, the broadest range of form factors (physical, virtual, Bare Metal, and hybrid), and with expanded system resources designed to support future feature needs.

The A10 Thunder ADC product line is built upon A10’s Advanced Core Operating System ( ACOS^® ) platform, with their Symmetric Scalable Multi-Core Processing (SSMP) software architecture that delivers high performance and a range of deployment options for dedicated, hosted or cloud data centers.

• Application availability for customer satisfaction: Enable your Web and key infrastructure servers to scale seamlessly to meet customer demand and ensure business continuity to maximize revenue and user satisfaction.
• Application acceleration for efficient operations: Provide fast and responsive service to your customers for competitive advantage and reduced infrastructure requirements for both application delivery and critical services, driving down CAPEX and OPEX.
• Security for compliance and risk reduction: Protect against advanced and emerging attacks for uninterrupted operations, brand protection, and revenue loss while meeting required regulatory compliance obligations for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and other regulations.
• Visibility into traffic profiles: Thunder ADCs feed information in real-time to the A10 Harmony^™ Controller. Administrators gain insight and visibility into key performance indicators, receive alerts and notifications on availability, performance and security such as popular URLs, application health, and performance metrics and obtain complete report generation. This allows them to quickly cross reference indicators and troubleshoot root causes of issues they may be encountering.

A10 Thunder ADC delivers critical services in the most efficient hardware and software models. With its data center-efficient design and compact form factor, Thunder ADC minimizes your rack space, power consumption, and cooling costs.

While the Thunder ADC platform provides a rich set of application and security services out-of-the-box, it also supports open and standards-based programmability, which allows developers to rapidly integrate custom and off-the-shelf services with Thunder ADC. The A10 Harmony architecture combines open programmability, policy enforcement, and telemetry to deliver the next generation of application networking.

A10 Thunder ADC Product Line

A10 Thunder ADC is a family of hardware and software appliances ready to match any deployment need. Each Thunder ADC form factor is powered by ACOS software, which brings a unique combination of shared memory accuracy and efficiency, 64-bit scalability and advanced flow processing.

• Thunder SPE Appliances: The Thunder SPE appliances deliver ultra high-speed Security and Policy Enforcement for your most demanding application networking and security requirements. Thunder SPE appliances leverage A10’s innovative Security and Policy Engine (SPE) to implement security and policy enforcement functions at higher speed, harnessing the power of advanced Flexible Traffic Acceleration (FTA) technology and high speed lookup capabilities. In addition, Thunder SPE is a future-proof design capable of enabling an expanded set of security and policy enforcements. All models are dual power supply-capable, feature solid-state drives (SSDs) and utilize no inaccessible moving parts for high availability. Thunder SPE appliances offer the best performance per rack unit coupled with high density interface 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE port options and the highest level “80 PLUS^™ Platinum” certification for power supplies to ensure a green solution and reduce power consumption costs.
• Thunder Hardware Appliances: The A10 Thunder ADC GSLB line of appliances fits all sizes of networks, starting with entry level models and moving up to high performance appliance for your most demanding requirements. All models are dual power supply-capable*, feature solid-state drives (SSDs) and use no inaccessible moving parts for high availability. All models benefit from our Flexible Traffic Acceleration (FTA) technology, with select models featuring field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for hardware optimized FTA processing; this provides highly scalable flow distribution and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection capabilities. Select models include dedicated security processors for SSL offload, switching and routing processors for high-speed network processing, and lights-out management (LOM) support for out-of-band monitoring and management. Each appliance offers the best performance per rack unit and the highest level “80 PLUS^™ Platinum” certification * for power supplies to ensure a green solution and reduce power consumption costs. Coupled with high density 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 40 GbE, and 100 GbE port options, Thunder ADC meets the highest networking bandwidth demands.
• vThunder Virtual Appliances: The vThunder^® ADC line of virtual appliances is designed to meet the growing needs of organizations requiring a flexible and easy-to-deploy application delivery and server load balancer solution running within a virtualized infrastructure or public cloud service. Each vThunder instance has a full set of features that can run atop your choice of commodity hardware and also your choice of leading hypervisor; for example, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM. vThunder ADC for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are also available for cloud deployments.
• Thunder ADC for Bare Metal: This family of high-performance software appliances provide complete ADC functionality that is tied to a dedicated server. With no need for an intervening hypervisor, the resulting throughput of up to 40 Gbps of Layer 7 traffic processing is optimized. As with vThunder, the Bare Metal option eases installations. Large enterprise, service providers and Web hosting operations are ideal environments that can leverage the flexibility afforded by Bare Metal.
• Thunder Hybrid Virtual Appliances (HVA): Offering you the combined flexibility of a virtual appliance and the power of the performance optimized hardware appliances, A10 Thunder HVA appliances enable multi-tenancy with multiple vThunder virtual appliances running on dedicated, turnkey hardware appliances with a high density of instances that are strongly isolated from each other, each with its own dedicated ACOS instance and dedicated compute resources. The fact that each instance can use dedicated SSL security processor technology with Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR- IOV) to offload and accelerate SSL sessions is a key hardware advantage. All vThunder ADC instances are included within the HVA appliance.

Additional management options are also available to enhance your Thunder ADC infrastructure. A10’s aGalaxy^® line of hardware and software appliances centrally manage all Thunder ADC hardware and software appliances for streamlined operations, resulting in reduced OPEX.

Hardware Specifications

A10's Thunder Series line of hardware appliances fits a wide variety of networks with entry level models starting at 5 Gbps and moving up to 220 Gbps high-performance appliance for your most demanding requirements.

Thunder ADC Hardware SPECIFICATIONS	Thunder 840	Thunder 930	Thunder 1030S	Thunder 3030S	Thunder 3040	Thunder 3230	Thunder 3430	Thunder 4430	Thunder 4435 SPE	Thunder 4440	Thunder 5330
Application Throughput (L4/L7)	5 Gbps / 5 Gbps	5 Gbps / 5 Gbps	10 Gbps / 10 Gbps	30 Gbps / 30 Gbps	30 Gbps / 30 Gbps	30 Gbps / 30 Gbps	42 Gbps / 42 Gbps	38 Gbps / 38 Gbps	38 Gbps / 38 Gbps	80 Gbps / 80 Gbps	78 Gbps / 78 Gbps
Layer 4 CPS	200k	200k	450k	750k	750k	1.5 million	2.5 million	2.7 million	3.1 million	2.9 million	3.1 million
Layer 4 HTTP RPS	1 million	1 million	2 million	3 million	3 million	7.5 million	12 million	12 million	12 million	15 million	15 million
Layer 4 Concurrent Sessions	16 million	16 million	32 million	64 million	64 million	64 million	128 million	128 million	128 million	128 million	128 million
Layer 7 CPS (1:1)*1	50k	50k	150k	250k	280k	420k	620k	620k	660k	750k	770k
SSL Bulk Throughput*2	1 Gbps	1 Gbps	7 Gbps	11 Gbps	11 Gbps	14 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	26 Gbps	25 Gbps	30 Gbps
SSL CPS*2|*3	RSA (1K): 2k RSA (2K): 500	RSA (1K): 1.9k RSA (2K): 400	RSA (1K): 25k RSA (2K): 7k	RSA (1K): 47k RSA (2K): 14k	RSA: 30k ECDSA: 20k	RSA: 40k ECDSA: 26k	RSA: 45k ECDSA: 32k	RSA (1K): 86k RSA (2K): 84k	RSA (1K): 120k RSA (2K): 65k	RSA: 70k ECDSA: 42k	RSA: 70k ECDSA: 50k
DDoS Protection (SYN Flood) SYN/sec	1.7 million	2 million	4 million	7.5 million	8 million	55 million	55 million	55 million	55 million	166 million	112 million
Application Delivery Partitions (ADP) L3V	32	32	32	64	64	64	127	127	1,023	127	127
Network Interfaces
1 GE Copper	5	6	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 GE Fiber (SFP)	0	2	2	2	2	4	4	0	0	0	0
1/10 GE Fiber (SFP+)	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	16	16	24	8
40 GE Fiber (QSFP+)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	4	0
100 GE Fiber (CXP)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Thunder ADC Hardware SPECIFICATIONS	Thunder 5430-11	Thunder 5435 SPE	Thunder 5440	Thunder 5630	Thunder 5840	Thunder 6430	Thunder 6435 SPE	Thunder 6440	Thunder 6630	Thunder 6635 SPE	Thunder 7440
Application Throughput (L4/L7)	79 Gbps / 78 Gbps	78 Gbps / 77 Gbps	100 Gbps / 100 Gbps	79 Gbps / 78 Gbps	115 Gbps / 113 Gbps	150 Gbps / 145 Gbps	153 Gbps / 150 Gbps	160 Gbps / 150 Gbps	150 Gbps / 145 Gbps	150 Gbps / 145 Gbps	220 Gbps / 200 Gbps
Layer 4 CPS	3.7 million	3.7 million	4 million	6 million	6.2 million	5.3 million	7.1 million	5.5 million	7.1 million	7.1 million	10.5 million
Layer 4 HTTP RPS	20 million	20 million	22 million	32.5 million	31 million	31 million	38 million	31 million	38 million	38 million	44 million
Layer 4 Concurrent Sessions	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million	256 million
Layer 7 CPS (1:1)*1	790k	790k	950k	1.5 million	1.5 million	1.35 million	1.6 million	1.4 million	1.6 million	1.6 million	2.8 million
SSL Bulk Throughput*2	30 Gbps	37 Gbps	45 Gbps	45 Gbps	55 Gbps	46 Gbps	60 Gbps	60 Gbps	64 Gbps	64 Gbps	75 Gbps
SSL CPS*2|*3	RSA (1K): 111k RSA (2K): 110k	RSA (1K): 120k RSA (2K): 65k	RSA: 100k ECDSA: 60k	RSA (1K): 180k RSA (2K): 174k	RSA: 150k ECDSA: 90k	RSA (1K): 134k RSA (2K): 130k	RSA (1K): 170k RSA (2K): 135k	RSA (1K): 180k RSA (2K): 180k	RSA (1K): 190k RSA (2K): 174k	RSA (1K): 190k RSA (2K): 174k	RSA (1K): 200k RSA (2k): 200k
DDoS Protection (SYN Flood) SYN/sec	112 million	112 million	166 million	100 million	166 million	223 million	223 million	332 million	223 million	223 million	332 million
Application Delivery Partitions (ADP) L3V	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023	1,023
Network Interfaces
1 GE Copper	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 GE Fiber (SFP)	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1/10 GE Fiber (SFP+)	16	16	24	24	24	16	16	48	12	12	48
40 GE Fiber (QSFP+)	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	0	0	4
100 GE Fiber (CXP)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0

• *1 Layer 7 connections per second - measures number of new HTTP connections (1 HTTP request per TCP connection, without TCP connection reuse ) within 1 second
• *2 With maximum SSL
• *3 Cipher "AES128-SHA256" with RSA 2K keys, unless noted, are used for RSA cases, "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256" with EC P-256 are used for PFS cases