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Riverbed Technology - History
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On July 19, 2011, Riverbed acquired Zeus
Technology, a provider of highperformance software-based load
balancing and traffic management
solutions for virtual and cloud
environments. Their primary product is
the Zeus Virtual Application Delivery
Controller (vADC).Techcrunch Web Site [
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/19/river
bed-acquires-zeus-for-140m-a-win-forcambridge-and-dfj-esprit/ Riverbed
acquires Zeus for $140m – A win for
Cambridge, DFJ Esprit and SEP], visited
August 5, 2011.
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SPDY - Server support and usage
* In May 2012 F5 Networks announced
support for SPDY in its BIG-IP application
delivery
controllers.[http://www.f5.com/news-pressevents/press/2012/20120508b.html F5
Helps Organizations Improve User
Experience and Simplify Management with
First Integrated SPDY Gateway | About F5
| F5 Networks]. F5.com (2012-05-08).
Retrieved on 2013-11-21.
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Brocade Communications
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The company's products include network-attached
storage, storage area network (SAN) directors and
switches, data center switches, Virtual Cluster
Switching, software-defined networking, network
virtualization, Internet service provider, enterprise
and campus Ethernet (local area network/wireless
local area network) Network Switch|switches and
wide area network (Internet) router
(computing)|routers, application delivery
controllers (load balancers), network security
appliances, Fibre Channel host bus adapters
(HBAs) and converged network adapters (CNAs),
and Transceiver#Ethernet|Ethernet transceivers
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Brocade Communications - Products
Brocade hardware products include Fibre Channel
Storage Area Network|SAN directors and switches;
ultra-low-latency data center switches; Virtual Cluster
Switching|Ethernet fabrics, Federal and enterprise
Ethernet (Local Area Network|LAN/Wireless Local
Area Network|WLAN) Network Switch|switches; Wide
Area Network|WAN (Internet) router
(computing)|routers; application delivery controllers
(load balancers); Fibre Channel fabric extension
switches; embedded Fibre Channel and Ethernet switch
blades; Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs);
Converged Network Adapter|converged Fibre
Channel/Ethernet network adapters (CNAs), and
Transceiver#Ethernet|Ethernet transceivers
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Brocade Communications - Products
Brocade also sells software-based
networking devices including technology
for Software-defined networking|SDN,
Network virtualization, virtual routers,
virtual firewalls, virtual Application Delivery
Controllers (load balancers), Network
Security|network security appliances and
VPNs through its wholly owned subsidiary,
Vyatta.
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A10 Networks
'A10 Networks' is a privately held
company specializing in the
manufacture of application delivery
controllers (software and hardware).
Founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, cofounder of Foundry Networks, A10
originally serviced just the identity
management market with its line of ID
Series products. In early 2007 they
added bandwidth management
appliances (EX Series).
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A10 Networks - History
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And in 2010, the 64-bit AX Series
family of application delivery
controllers won Best of Microsoft
TechEd for Networking
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A10 Networks - History
In May 2013 A10 launched its A10
Thunder Series platforms, which are
hardware and software Application
Delivery Controllers (ADCs). A10 Thunder
Series won awards at the TechEd 2013
show in New Orleans, Louisiana for the
Hardware category as well as the
Attendees' Pick award.
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A10 Networks - Products and services
* A10 Thunder Series platforms, are
hardware and software Application
Delivery Controllers (ADCs) that provide
Unified Application Service Gateway
functionality by consolidating premium
solution modules for intelligent Cloud
services in the most efficient form factors
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A10 Networks - Products and services
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* The AX Series application delivery
controllers consists of 12 models,
including nine 64-bit and three 32-bit
models
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A10 Networks - Products and services
* SoftAX is a virtual or software-based
Application Delivery Controller developed
by A10. It is part of A10's AX Series ADC
family of products. SoftAX can be
downloaded instantly and installed into
any organization’s existing virtual machine
(VM) environment. A10 offers a 30 day
free trial of SoftAX for the following
hypervisors: VMware ESXi, KVM, Citrix
Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
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Application delivery controller
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An 'application delivery controller' (ADC) is a
computer network device in a datacenter,
often part of an application delivery network
(ADN), that helps perform common tasks
such as those done by web sites to remove
load from the web servers themselves. Many
also provide Load balancing (computing)|load
balancing. ADCs are often placed in the DMZ
(computing)|DMZ, between the Firewall
(computing)|firewall or router and a web farm.
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Application delivery controller - Availability
Application acceleration products
were available from many companies
by 2007, for example F5 Networks,
AiCache|aiScaler, Juniper Networks,
Microsoft and Strangeloop Networks.
Cisco Systems offered application
delivery controllers, until leaving the
market in 2012. Market leaders like F5
Networks and Citrix had been gaining
market share from Cisco in previous
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Application delivery network
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Gartner defines Application Delivery Networking
as the combination of WAN Optimization
Controllers (WOCs) and Application Delivery
Controllers
(ADCs).[http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=495
973 Gartner Says Worldwide Application
Acceleration Market Will Reach $3.7 Billion in
2008, STAMFORD, Conn., August 21, 2006] At the
data center end of an ADN is the Application
Delivery Controller (ADC), an advanced traffic
management device that is often also referred to
as a web switch, content switch, or multilayer
switch, the purpose of which is to distribute traffic
among a number of servers or geographically
dislocated sites based
on application specific
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criteria
Application delivery network - Application delivery techniques
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The application delivery controller
(ADC) is assigned a single virtual IP
address (VIP) that represents the pool
of servers
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AiCache
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It develops application delivery controllers
designed to allow Dynamic Web
pages|dynamic web pages to scale
content by intelligently caching frequently
requested content
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AiCache - Products
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All aiScaler products can be
categorized as Application
Delivery Controllers
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Fortinet
In March 2013, Fortinet acquired
Coyote Point Systems, an application
delivery controller (ADC)
manufacturer.
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Foundry Networks - History
Foundry Networks was the first
company to build and ship a gigabit
Ethernet switch in 1997; to build a
Layer 3 switch, also in 1997; to build
the first Application Delivery
Controller|Layer 4-7 switch in 1998
and to include 10 gigabit Ethernet
single connectors in its boxes (since
2001).
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Array Networks
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APV Series Application Delivery Controller
Enterprise
Platforms,[http://www.networkworld.com/n
ewsletters/accel/2008/033108netop2.html
Array Networks on a Green Streak,
Network World, April 22 2008]
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Array Networks - Application Delivery Controllers and Server Load Balancers
The Array Networks (AppVelocity)
APV Series consists of Application
delivery controller|Application
Delivery Controllers for SSL
acceleration, Load balancing
(computing)|load balancing and
traffic management at layers
Network_switch#Layer_2|2Network_switch#Layer_7|7 for
enterprise data centers and Web sites
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Array Networks - Application Delivery Controllers and Server Load Balancers
In 2009, Array launched an upgraded
application delivery controller for
enterprises and service providers using
Web 2.0 applications, multimedia
services and Software as a
service|hosted cloud computing|cloudcentric
applications.[http://www.networkworld.
com/newsletters/accel/2009/060809neto
p2.html Array debuts 10Gbps
acceleration gear, NetworkWorld June
11 2009]
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