Initially, A10 will offer three Thunder TPS boxes, starting with the Thunder 4435 TPS, which provides 38 Gbps of throughput and includes 16 x 10 GbE ports. The Thunder 5435 TPS will deliver up to 77 Gbps of throughput and also includes 16 x10 GbE ports, as well as 4 x 40 GbE ports. The big box is the Thunder 6435 TPS, which delivers up to 155 Gbps and is powered by a dual Intel Xeon set of chips that have 20 processor cores in total.
“Up to 8 Thunder 6435s can be clustered together for a combined throughput of over 1 Tbps,” Jason Matlof, VP of marketing at A10 Networks, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet. “A common management console called a Galaxy implements a VCS, which is our virtual chassis system that synchronized configuration and state across all the devices.”
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