High Performance for Modern Applications with New 6th-generation ADC

Artificial intelligence has undergone remarkable advancement over the past two years driven largely by the swift expansion of intelligent applications in eCommerce, streaming platforms, content feeds, intelligent chatbots and personalized recommendation engines. Enterprises increasingly integrate modern AI-powered apps, the computer intensive workload continuously queries data source and application web services. This creates a constant stream of computer/machine-generated traffic. These machine learning operations introduce complexity in data pipelines and infrastructure, especially real-time AI applications that demand low-latency responses. To stay ahead, enterprises must upgrade their infrastructure to efficiently handle the demands of modern and AI-enabled applications.

The challenges in AI-enabled applications are computational and real-time demands, meeting sub-millisecond low-latency requirements, and dealing with unpredictable workloads. To meet these demands, an application delivery controller is required, one that is fast and able to optimize, secure, and scale efficiently while maintaining excellent performance and faster response time.

As part of our ongoing commitment to innovation, A10 is releasing a new addition to the 6th-generation Thunder 7460S series, which is designed to deliver scalable capacity, high-speed processing and exceptional SSL and TLS 1.3 performance. This is a mid-range Thunder appliance ranging from 150 Gbps to 270 Gbps throughput capacity and supports high-performance application delivery and security across network Layer 4 to Layer 7 including HTTPS over TLS 1.3.

Thunder 7460S and New ACOS 7.0.1

The seamless integration of the Thunder 7460S platform and A10’s Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) software supercharges modern and AI-enabled apps. This combination elevates performance, scalability and security across a critical layer of application delivery.

• Advanced Load Balancing for AI-powered Applications: Beyond traditional load balancing, ACOS uses advanced load-balancing algorithms that can distribute traffic based on server load, service load, and response time, ensuring optimal utilization of your AI workload and minimizing latency.
• Enhancing Modern App Performance with TLS 1.3: Modern applications require faster performance and more secure communication with TLS 1.3. The combination of Thunder 7460S platforms on-board SSL accelerator and ACOS software offers stronger encryption algorithms, faster handshake (efficient for real-time interface), dynamically improving application performance and reducing strain on the servers.
• Application-layer Optimization: AI-centric applications require high concurrency, low latency, and support for large streaming data sets, making the transport-layer protocol critical. The Thunder 7460S ADC and ACOS software improve modern workloads over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 by optimizing connection management, minimizing latency, and ensuring scalability.

The Thunder 7460S ADC and ACOS software boosts modern workload over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 by optimizing connection management, minimizing latency, and ensuring scalability. It efficiently handles multiplexed streams in HTTP/2 and utilizes the speed and reliability of the HTTP/3 protocol to support critical real-time AI operations.

Key Highlights of Thunder 7460S

• Modular architecture and scale-as-you-grow flexible licensing model offering (150 Gbps, 200 Gbps, 250 Gbps and Max variants)
• Advanced SSL technology beyond the previous generation appliances such as TH6440 and TH7440
• Robust TLS/SSL encryption and decryption that maintains high performance without compromise

Smart, Secure, and Fast

Demand for AI-enabled applications is increasing. The new Thunder ADC platform is about getting ahead of future infrastructure needs. The solution provides unmatched speed, scale, and security for AI application workloads to keep pace with innovation, deliver better user experiences, and unleash the power of artificial intelligence in the enterprise.

Are you ready to change the way you deliver applications powered by AI? Whether you are an A10 customer using our 3rd or 4th-generation appliance or currently using other traditional ADC solutions, we invite you to connect with us.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from A10 Networks Blog: Cyber Security authored by A10 Networks. Read the original post at: https://www.a10networks.com/blog/high-performance-for-modern-applications-with-new-6th-generation-adc/