A10 Networks, a application networking provider has announced A10 Thunder TPS (Threat Protection System) Series appliance to provide high-performance, network-wide protection against a variety of volumetric, protocol, resource and more sophisticated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and improve service availability for critical Internet infrastructures and public-facing websites.
Building on the existing DDoS feature set in the company’s popular ADCs (application delivery controllers), A10 expands its offerings with the introduction of a standalone line of DDoS products
for network-wide protection.
The Thunder TPS product line is built upon A10’s Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) platform, which delivers up to 155Gbps of throughput, thereby helping enterprise and service provider customers address the increasing scale of DDoS attacks.
Broad multi-vector attack detection capabilities are designed to secure customers’ networks against a variety of attack types, while support for multiple deployment modes provides the flexibility needed to integrate with various customer network designs.
As businesses around the world grow increasingly reliant upon the up-time of Internet-connected services, there is corresponding growth in the nature, volume and sophistication of DDoS attacks by criminal syndicates and hackers looking to disrupt that service availability. Organizations face the threat of significant revenue loss and brand reputation damage from these DDoS attacks that have
few good solutions today.
Legacy security solutions, such as firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have insufficient capacity to mitigate today’s multi-vector DDoS attacks at scale. With DDoS mitigation capacity
ranging from 37Gbps to 155Gbps (and up to 1.2Tbps in a cluster) throughput, Thunder TPS is designed to provide protection against large attacks.
Each Thunder TPS model is equipped with high-performance FPGA-based Flexible Traffic Acceleration (FTA) technology to detect and mitigate over 30 common attack vectors rapidly in hardware, without degrading the performance of the core system general purpose CPUs.
More complex application layer (L7) attacks (HTTP, SSL, DNS etc.) are processed and detected by the latest Intel Xeon CPUs, so performance scaling is maintained by distributing multi-vector detection and mitigation functions across optimal system resources.
Thunder TPS is architected with an open design, which allows it to be readily deployed into a variety of existing network architectures and integrated with third-party attack detection systems.
Thunder TPS supports flexible deployment models for in- and out-of-band operations, and routed or transparent operation modes. In addition, aXAPI, an open RESTful API, enables integration to custom or third-party detection solutions, allowing the Thunder TPS to take advantage of the growing ecosystem of multi-level threat protections solutions.
“DDoS attacks like SYN Flood and Fragmentation attacks are rapidly evolving to becoming a big numbers game, with malicious bots or zombie machines directing massive amounts of traffic in unison toward target victims. Effective DDoS solutions must be able to mitigate at equally massive scale and performance to prevent service interruption,” said Lee Chen, A10 CEO and Founder. “Service availability for Internet-connected applications is critical to our enterprise and service provider customers, so we are proud to help them improve the uptime and security of those applications.”
“As an early user of the Thunder TPS, we believe A10 is delivering a high-value product, with rich features and really great performance,” said Gerold Arheilger, CTO, Xantaro Group. “In order to
sufficiently protect against large-scale, multi-vector DDoS attacks, mitigation solutions must provide very high packet-per-second processing power. Thunder TPS is built for these extreme environments.”
“The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and A10 Networks have a shared vision to protect the internet from large-scale threats,” said Richard Boscovich, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit. “We will continue to partner to mitigate future threats leveraging DCU’s expertise and A10’s advanced threat protection technologies.”
