Shasta County Government, located in Redding, CA (News - Alert), has reportedly deployed A10 Networks’s AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers to ensure distribution of information as quickly, cost effectively and efficiently as possible to the community.

A10 Networks' (News - Alert) AX Series is the high performance advanced traffic manager which helps enterprises and ISPs maximize application availability through a scalable Web Application Delivery Platform.

Shasta County’s network was unable to scale with the increased load required for public communication, such as streaming video. This made the County to decide on upgrading to a new infrastructure of clustered Web servers running in a VMware environment. Subsequently it pin pointed A10's AX Series as the server load balancer platform. Additionally, Shasta County is also said to have replaced the software-based load balancers that were not performing as expected for its financial system with the AX Series.

The switch-over to AX Series took only ten minutes, without impacting network availability, said county officials.

"We researched the three major load balancing solutions on the market and were delighted to learn we could deploy AX Series for the most superior technology at a fraction of the price," said Tom Lee, IT supervisor for infrastructure at Shasta County.

"Now everyone is happy. We stayed well within our budget; can easily support streaming video for best communication practices; our users notice faster response times, and my team delivered on its charter to serve the public," added Lee.

A10's AX Series enables dynamic RAM Caching, aFleX Layer 7 Scripting and SSL Offload. Additional key features within the AX Series include; Revolutionary Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) for scalable server load balancing solutions, Comprehensive Layer 4-7 features and performance, SSL acceleration, hardware compression and RAM caching at a cost-effective price. Moreover, with good reliability and redundancy through comprehensive application-layer health checks and load-balancing algorithms, the solution runs on a platform with carrier-grade hardware components.

 

"We are proud that Shasta County is able to quickly, cost effectively and efficiently distribute information to its public community with the help of our AX Series," said Lee Chen, founder and chief executive officer at A10 Networks. "The AX Series provides a competitive advantage for government customers by delivering more than twice the performance at half the price of competing solutions, including innovative features and functionality."