Manage Bandwidth and Network Links

with Unprecedented Application and

User Visibility
The EX Series is the industry’s only appliance
combining bandwidth management, link manage-
ment, and network monitoring with application and
user visibility. This helps organizations optimize and
secure their networks by understanding their current
network demands at the application and user level,
applying traffic policies to enforce network utilization,
and increasing reliability of traffic through the use
of application prioritization and multiple links. The
EX series is built on a high performance and secure
platform for an unmatched solution to optimize the
network edge.

Bandwidth Management Application & User Visibility Link Management

 Comprehensive Protocol Support  Bandwidth Utilization Reports  Link Load Balancing

Maximize bandwidth with support for Bandwidth utilization reports quickly iden- Support multi-homed networks with fine-
over 100 applications to ensure the most tify top applications, and users consuming grained load balancing across two or more
critical network traffic receives the high- the most bandwidth. Graphical real-time WAN links to help increase WAN capacity,
est priority across WAN links. The EX and historical reports with drill down ca- ensure link level redundancy and optimize
provides automatic application protocol pabilities are available from the web user network traffic over the WAN. The EX
classification, comprehensive policies and interface. PDF, HTML or XML format- allows mission critical applications to use
traffic controls such as rate shaping, rate ted reports may be exported manually highly available dedicated links and non-
limiting, selective dropping, priority mark- or emailed periodically on a configurable critical applications such as web brows-
ing and automatic load aware shaping. schedule. ing or multimedia to use links with lower
service level agreements.
 Application Protocol Identification  Identity-Based Application Visibility
Application protocol classification tech- Know who is doing “what” and “when” by
Performance, Security & Flexibility
niques extend above simple Layer 3 and 4 monitoring application activity and applica-
(IP and port) combinations. Deep packet tion user identities for a variety of Instant  High Performance
inspection techniques enable the EX to Messaging (IM), file transfer, and email 1 Gbps to 4 Gbps throughput allows
identify application protocols for positive applications. Combine with A10’s ID Se- the network capacity room to grow and
application identification. These tech- ries appliance to enhance all reports and scale with increasing needs.
niques enable the EX to identify applica- policies with a company assigned identity,
tion protocols that use port hopping, port machine host name, and MAC address for  Network IPS
tunneling, and encryption. unprecedented visibility and control. Identify network anomalies before they
impact your internal machines. Provide
 Innovative User Based QoS Policies  Application Logging real time protection against attacks such
Allocate bandwidth and network applica- Log discrete application actions with user as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS),
tion access transparently to a user based name, such as writing a file, sending an port scans, address sweeps, protocol
solely on their company assigned user ID. email or posting data to a web site, and misuse and malformed packets.
Practically any corporate data store such archive them periodically for compliance
as Active Directory, SQL database and or post event investigations. Use a free  Flexible Deployment Options
LDAP is available when connecting to an form text search engine to pinpoint events Integrate into existing network infrastruc-
A10 ID Series appliance. Traditional QoS of interest. tures with support for both transparent
policies based on Layer 3-7 traffic clas- and gateway modes, allowing fail open or
sification and heurstics can also be used closed configurations. Transparent mode
to control bandwidth consumption. also means no network configuration is
changed for seamless deployment.

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 EX Series Features
»» Application Bandwidth Management ros, Lotus, IPP, NNTP, NTP, Printer, RPC, yy Application logging
RPC2Portmap, Router, Shell, SNMP, Sun File Transfer – FTP, NFS, CIFS
yy QoS policy actions RPC, Syslog, Time, UUCP ) Mail - SMTP, POP3
Automatic load aware shaping Instant Messaging – Yahoo, AOL, MSN, QQ
Rate shape, limit, drop »» Link Management Web – HTTP Post
Connection limit yy Map application ID to company assigned ID*
Priority marking yy Inbound and outbound WAN link balance yy Augmented with ID, host name, and MAC*
Apply sub-policy yy Link preference by QoS class
yy QoS policy rules yy Bind different classes to different link sets »» IPS Anomaly Protection
100+ predefined application classes yy Expose internal services using Destination
Custom classes based on L2-L7 Network Address Translation (DNAT) or yy 28 network anomaly types
attributes server load balancing (SLB) DDoS Attacks
Custom classes based on Identity* yy Use built in DNS or 3rd party DNS ICMP Based Attacks
aFleX powered custom classification yy Packet steering or link load balance by IP Based Attacks
engine domain name or identity* TCP/UDP Based Attacks
Heuristics based classification yy Link load balancing algorithms
yy Predefined application class categories Round Robin »» Layer 2 and Layer 3 Support
Peer-to-Peer (Ares, BitTorrent, Cspace, Weighted Round Robin
Dijjer, DirectConnect, eDonkey-eMule, Least Connection yy L3 routing protocols
FreeCast, Gnutella, Limewire, KaZaA, Weighted Least Connection RIP2
Krawler, PPLive, PPStream, Share, Bandwidth Usage OSPF
SoulSeek, TVAnts, WinMX, Xunlei) Round Trip Time Static Route
Multimedia (Abacast, Flash Video, Bandwidth Price yy L2 transparent mode
iTunes, Motion, Quicktime, RTP, RTSP, Tagged and untagged Vlans
Shoutcast, Windows Media) »» Application and Identity Visibility
Voice-over-IP (H323, Skype, Skinny)
Instant Messaging (AOL, Yahoo, MSN, yy Granular reporting »» Management
Gtalk, IRC, QQ) Top N internal talkers
Access (SSH, rlogin, telnet, Remote Top N external talkers yy Industry standard Command Line
Desktop, VNC) Top N applications Interface (CLI)
File Transfer (FTP, RCP, NFS, CIFS, Top N URLs yy Intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)
SMB, NetBIOS, Netware) Packet size distribution yy Localized for Chinese, Japanese and
Email (MS Exchange, POP3, IMAP, Interactive drill down Korean
SMTP, BIFF) Periodic graphical reports yy SSH, Telnet, RS-232 Serial Console
Database (mySQL, Oracle) Threshold alerts
Directory (LDAP, ident) Enhanced with Identity, Client Host »» High Availability
Web (HTTP, HTTPS) Name, and Client Host MAC address*
Miscellaneous (AURP, Ariel, BGP, Day PDF, HTML or XML format yy Active/Standby
Time, DHCP, DNS, Echo, Gopher, Kerbe- By application, subnet, VLAN or interface * Requires ID Series IP-to-ID integration

EX Series Hardware Summary

EX 1100 EX 2110
Processor Single Quad Core Single Quad Core
Ethernet Interface
Gigabit Copper 4 6
Gigabit Fiber – SFP Mini GBIC 0 2
Management Interface Yes (separate port) Yes (separate port)
Console Port Yes Yes
Hard Disks Single Single
Cooling Fan Single, Fixed Single, Fixed
Maximum Power Consumption 131 W 158 W
Single 250 W Single 250 W
Power Supply
100 to 240 VAC, Frequency 50 – 60 Hz
Power Off Bypass Yes Yes
1.75 in (H) 1.75 in (H)
Dimensions 17.3 in (W) 17.3 in (W)
16.7 in (D) 16.7 in (D)
Rack Units (Mountable) 1U 1U
Unit Weight 16 lbs 16 lbs
Operating Ranges Temperature and Humidity 0° - 40° C 5% - 95%
Regulatory Certification FCC Class A, UL, CE, TUV, CB, VCCI
Standard Warranty 90-day Hardware & Software

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