Description
Thunder CGN – IPv4 Preservation & IPv6 Transition Management
The most advanced carrier-grade networking solution, A10 Thunder CGN provides high-performance, highly transparent network address and protocol translation that allows service providers and enterprises to extend IPv4 network connectivity while simultaneously transitioning to IPv6 standards.
This high-performance, Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) solution enables service providers and enterprises to preserve existing IPv4 investment and transition to IPv6.
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Seamless IPv6 Transition – Manage the IPv6 transition with translation and encapsulation functions, such as NAT64/DNS64, DS-Lite, Lw4o6, 6rd, 464XLAT, MAP-T and MAP-E |
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DDoS Protection for NAT IP Pools – Defend NAT IP address pools from DDoS attacks and protect service availability for subscribers and employees. Ensure that the NAT gateway itself is not compromised |
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Application Layer Gateway – Application-level gateways (ALG) support network growth and a seamless user experience for applications. ALGs ensure protocols — such as FTP, TFTP, RTSP, PPTP, SIP, ICMP,H.323, ESP, MGCP and DNS—remain functional |
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Advanced Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) – Solve IPv4 address exhaustion and extend the life of an IPv4 network infrastructure with CGNAT to ensure critical applications and services are always available and reliable |
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Advanced logging features – Advanced features including high speed logging and IPDR support help providers meet requirements for LEA, compliance and auditability |
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Scale & Performance – High performance in all form factors, including container, virtual, bare metal, and physical appliances. Industry-leading throughput, concurrent sessions, and connections per second, with scaleout “add as you grow” capability |
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SDN & NFV Ready – Build a truly open platform to implement on-demand provisioning and integrate with OpenStack, SDN fabrics, and NFV/ MANO frameworks |
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Global Management & Analytics – Gain subscriber and network services visibility with A10 Harmony® Controller for Thunder CGN. Centrally configure and manage policies across services globally |
The award-winning A10 Thunder CGN proactively solves IPv4 address exhaustion to overcome the challenges associated with the rapid increase of IP address demands for internet-connected devices and BYOD rollout. Thunder CGN delivers advanced features to help service providers and enterprises extend IPv4 connectivity, transition to IPv6, and reduce TCO.
As network addressing and IPv6 transition architectures can vary greatly across and within an organization, customers need a solution that provides the broadest support for industry standards and meets different IP address and protocol translation requirements simultaneously.
Thunder CGN enhances your infrastructure security and availability to ensure your applications remain addressable and operate transparently through address translation with multiple mechanisms, such as integrated DDoS protection for NAT pools and application layer gateways (ALG).
Built on A10’s market-proven Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS®), Thunder CGN delivers performance scalability up to 300 Gbps and offers the broadest range of form factors (physical, virtual and bare metal) for deployment flexibility.
Physical Appliances
A10’s Thunder Series line of hardware appliances fits a wide variety of networks with entry-level models starting at 5 Gbps and moving up to 220 Gbps high-performance appliance for your most demanding requirements.