GEC NEWS WIREA10 Solutions Provide an Ideal Transition for Forefront TMG Users
A10 Networks’ Thunder ADC solutions have achieved certification for use as a reverse proxy with Lync Server 2013 by Microsoft’s Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program (UCOIP). A10 Thunder purpose-built hardware appliances and hypervisor-based virtual vThunder offerings optimize Microsoft’s front-end and back-end Lync servers to enhance the delivery of popular services such as user authentication, web conferencing, instant messaging, application sharing, contact list storage and more. A10 ADCs are also tested and certified with Lync Server for use as a load balancer.
This UCOIP certification also shows A10 Thunder ADCs ability to replace Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) for Lync reverse proxy scenarios. “One of our primary objectives is to provide IT administrators and network infrastructure professionals with application networking tools that enable them to quickly and efficiently deliver the best possible user experience at all times,” said Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing at A10 Networks. “With the UCOIP reverse proxy certification for Lync, A10 demonstrates its continuing commitment to support complex enterprise application environments; enhancing application availability, security and responsiveness.”
A10 Thunder ADC benefits for Lync Server deployments include application scaling by load balancing traffic across multiple servers, high availability with sub-second stateful failover, application acceleration and scaling, SSL offloading, protection against web application attacks and online security threats and high-density multi-tenancy.
