A10 Thunder™ 5430S

Unified Application Service Gateway

• Efficiency: Consolidated, Scalable Cloud Services in

Compact 1U Hardware Appliance
• Scalability: 77 Gbps Throughput, Large-scale Virtualization
• Reliability: Maximum Uptime with Carrier Class Hardware

A10 Thunder 5430S is a 64-bit 1U Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that provides
Data Center Ready Today, Unified Application Service Gateway functionality by consolidating premium solution
and Tomorrow modules for intelligent Cloud Services in the most efficient form factor. Built on
● Accelerate with SSL Offload, A10’s scalable and flexible Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture,
RAM Caching and Compression A10 Thunder platforms consolidate stand-alone solutions such as ADCs, Server Load
● Advanced features with GSLB, aFleX Balancers, Carrier Grade NAT (CGN/CGNAT), IPv6 Migration, DNS Application Firewall,
traffic control and aXAPI management Web Application Firewall (WAF), SSL Intercept, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
● Most comprehensive IPv6 transition and protection, Application Access Management (AAM), and more, without license fees.
IPv4 preservation support
● Integrated security with WAF, AAM, A10 Thunder 5430S sets a new industry efficiency standard delivering 2.8 million
DDoS protection, DNS Application
Layer 4 connections per second (CPS) and 77 Gbps of application throughput in a
Firewall and SSL Intercept
● No licensing fees for premium features 1U appliance. NITROX III SSL acceleration hardware delivers exceptional 2048-bit
key performance with 67,000 SSL CPS. In addition, DDoS SYN Flood protection of
Cost-Effective Scalability
112 million SYN Cookies per second and concurrent session support of 256 million
● Large-scale virtualization for sessions deliver high performance per rack unit.
multi-tenancy and consolidation
● Scale-up to 8x with Virtual Chassis (aVCS) High-capacity and high-performance multi-tenancy with up to 1024 Application
● Handle larger SSL key sizes
Delivery Partitions (ADPs) deliver large-scale virtualization and consolidation to
(up to 4096-bit)
● 40 Gb port connectivity enable more applications and services on a single platform, reducing deployment
● More processing power: Intel Xeon time and cost.
Octo-core CPUs
● No performance licenses
Redundant Tamper Hot Swap
Application Optimization Power Supply Detection Smart Fans

● Optimize any application, including 2 x NITROX III SSL

Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Octo-core
ADFS, Oracle, DNS, and more Intel Xeon CPU

● Improve Web server response times and ECC Memory

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Management QSFP+
Console Port Solid-state
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A10 Thunder Features
Application Delivery Features ™™ HTTP Connection Multiplexing ●● Application Level Gateways (ALGs) for
●● Comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Support ™™ HTTP Caching FTP, TFTP, RTSP, PPTP, SIP, ICMP, DNS, ESP
●● Advanced Layer 4/Layer 7 Server Load ™™ HTTP Compression ●● Carrier Grade NAT (CGN), Large Scale NAT
Balancing ●● SSL Acceleration (LSN), NAT444, NAT44, NAT46
™™ Fast HTTP, Full HTTP Proxy ™™ Hardware-based SSL Offload ●● NAT64/DNS64, DS-Lite, 6rd
™™ High-performance, template-based ™™ Support for all TCP Protocols – SSL Ter- Management
Layer 7 switching with header/URL/ mination, SSL Bridging (SSL Initiation) ●● Dedicated management interface (Con-
domain manipulation ™™ TLS 1.2 and 4096-bit SSL key support sole, SSH, Telnet, HTTPS)
™™ Comprehensive Layer 7 application ●● SSL Session ID Reuse ●● Web-based Graphical User Interface
persistence support ●● Hardware-based SYN Cookies, IP (GUI) with Language Localization
●● Comprehensive load balancing methods Anomaly Detection ●● Industry-standard Command Line Inter-
™™ Round Robin, Least Connections, ●● Connection Rate Limiting/Connection face (CLI)
Weighted RR, Weighted LC, Fastest Limiting ●● SNMP, Syslog, Email Alerts
Response, & more ●● DNS Application Firewall ●● Port Mirroring
●● aFleX – deep packet inspection and ●● SSL Intercept ●● REST-style XML API (aXAPI)
transformation for customizable, ●● Web Application Firewall (WAF) ●● LDAP, TACACS+, RADIUS Support
application-aware switching ●● Application Access Management (AAM)
●● Advanced Health Monitoring
Virtualization
High Performance, Scalable Platform ●● aVCS (AX Virtual Chassis System)
™™ Comprehensive Protocol Support ●● ACOS Operating System ●● SoftAX Virtual Appliance for VMware
– ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, ™™ Multi-core, Multi-CPU support vSphere, Citrix Xen and KVM options
RTSP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, DNS, RADIUS, ™™ Linear Application Scaling ●● Multi-tenancy with Application Delivery
LDAP, & more ™™ Linux on Control Plane Partitions (ADPs)
™™ TCL Scriptable Health Check Support ●● ACOS on Data Plane ™™ Role-based Administration (RBA)
™™ High Availability – Active-Active, Networking ™™ Partition-based Management
Active-Standby configurations with ●● Integrated Layer 2/Layer 3 ™™ L2/L3 Virtualization
sub-second failover ●● Transparent Mode/Gateway Mode ●● Hypervisor acceleration and
™™ SIP Load Balancing for VoIP and other ●● Routing – Static Routes, IS-IS (v4/v6), management integration
rich-media applications RIPv2/ng, OSPF v2/v3, BGP4+
™™ STARTTLS support for Secure Email ●● VLAN (802.1Q)
Carrier-grade Hardware
(POPS, SMTPS, IMAPS) & LDAPS ●● Advanced hardware architecture
●● Trunking (802.1AX), LACP
●● Spam Filter Support – high-speed appli- ●● Redundant Power Supplies
●● Access Control Lists (ACLs)
cation of very large black/white lists ●● AC or DC Power Supplies
●● Traditional IPv4-->IPv4 NAT/NAPT
●● Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB) ●● Smart Fans (hot swap)
●● IPv6-->IPv6 NAPT
●● Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) ●● Solid-state drive (SSD) and Compact
●● Jumbo frame support
●● Transparent Cache Switching (TCS) Flash
●● Link Load Balancing (LLB) IPv6 Migration/IPv4 Preservation ●● High Port Density
●● Diameter AAA Load Balancing ●● Full native IPv6 management and feature ●● 40 Gb, 10 Gb Ports
●● Database Load Balancing support ●● Tamper Detection
●● SLB-PT (Protocol Translation), SLB-64 ●● Lights Out Management (LOM/IPMI)
Acceleration & Security Features (IPv4<->IPv6, IPv6<->IPv4)
●● HTTP Acceleration & Optimization

A10 Thunder 5430S Appliance Summary

Processor 1 x Intel Xeon Octo-core

Hardware Acceleration 2 x FTA-3, L2/3 S+R ASIC, 2 x NITROX III SSL ASICs Users
Memory 64 GB of ECC RAM Backup
Data Center
4 x 40-Gigabit ports (QSFP+), 16 x 1/10-Gigabit ports
Ethernet Interfaces
(SFP/SFP+) External
Application Delivery Internet
1024 Network
Partitions (ADP) RBA/L3V
Management Interface 1 Dedicated
Lights out Management 1 LOM/IPMI Interface ADC

Console Port 1 Console Interface

Internal
Dual redundant 80 Plus “Platinum” efficiency (best-in-class)
Power Supply Network
100 – 240 VAC, Frequency 50 – 60 Hz
Max Power Consumption 550 W
Operating Temperate Range 0° – 40° C
Servers
Dimensions 1.75 in (H) x 17.5 in (W) x 30 in (D)
Unit Weight 34.6 lbs
Regulatory Certification FCC Class A, UL, CE, TUV, CB, VCCI
Standard Warranty 90-day Hardware & Software Application Delivery Landscape
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