University of the Arts London has deployed the AX Series Advanced Traffic Managers from A10 Networks (News - Alert) to create a new Web architecture for optimized content delivery.

 

This academic institution is famous in Europe for art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. It runs six internationally renowned colleges and operates two datacenters to provide over 25 Websites with interactive graphic content, leveraging Apache servers running on VMware that retrieve information from MySQL and Oracle (News - Alert) databases on the backend.

 

Recently, the university began a new Web service initiative to deploy an upgraded architecture to provide optimized content delivery for bandwidth-intensive graphic applications to site visitors. This initiative required a high-performance application delivery platform to replace the existing server load balancing solution that was unable to deliver the required capacity.

 

A10 Networks’ A10's AX 2100s were chosen for a higher-performance and more scalable solution. Andrew McClements, network services manager for University of the Arts London, said they made this decision as A10's AX 2100s met and exceeded the project's functional requirements.

 

The AX Series meet the university’s functional technology requirements for application optimization including TCP/UDP (News - Alert) load balancing, SSL acceleration and application persistence.

 

“The AX Series delivers the education market the lowest cost per connection and the best performance per watt per space in the industry,” Lee Chen (News - Alert), founder and CEO of A10 Networks, said. “AX Series solutions include rich features and exceptional scalability that benefit both the datacenter and the end user experience.”

 

A10 Networks provides innovative networking and security solutions to help organizations accelerate, optimize and secure their applications. The company has also released its 64-bit Advanced Core Operation System, the industry's first Application Delivery OS based on native 64-bit code.