I use the solution to check the tickets and reports of the configuration site.
IP/DDOS Senior Engineer at Türk Telekom International
Stable and easy-to-use solution
Pros and Cons
- "It is a scalable solution."
- "Its documentation could be better."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution is easy to use.
What needs improvement?
The solution’s documentation could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
Buyer's Guide
A10 Thunder TPS
January 2025
Learn what your peers think about A10 Thunder TPS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2025.
831,265 professionals have used our research since 2012.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. Around 50% of our staff use it.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process is straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution to others and rate it a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Used as an anti-DDoS, but needs improvement in terms of fail-open
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is easy to use and implement in terms of operations."
- "The solution needs improvement in terms of fail-open."
What is our primary use case?
We use A10 Thunder TPS as an anti-DDoS tool.
What is most valuable?
The solution is easy to use and implement in terms of operations.
What needs improvement?
The solution needs improvement in terms of fail-open. We need separate fail-open kits connected to A10 Thunder TPS and the network so that network traffic will pass through normally when the tool goes down.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using A10 Thunder TPS for more than two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
A10 Thunder TPS is a very stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is more suitable for medium-sized companies.
How are customer service and support?
The solution provides good technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of the solution is moderate, and it is neither easy nor very hard.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Arbor is more famous than A10 Thunder TPS, and more people use it.
What other advice do I have?
It was easy to integrate the solution with our current IT workflow. I would recommend the solution to other users.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Last updated: Aug 31, 2024
Flag as inappropriateBuyer's Guide
A10 Thunder TPS
January 2025
Learn what your peers think about A10 Thunder TPS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2025.
831,265 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Security IT at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
With favorable pricing and good support for its users, the tool is also useful for server load balancing
Pros and Cons
- "The solution's support is one of the coolest things about the product. I"
- "We have had some issues with implementation. So, it is the only area that needs improvement."
What is our primary use case?
We use A10 Thunder TPS for load balancing, especially server load balancing.
What is most valuable?
The solution's firewall features are the most valuable feature of the solution. I think we can use all the features or capabilities that come with the product's license. Maybe today, we are just implementing an SOP or LOB.
What needs improvement?
We have had some issues with implementation. So, it is the only area that needs improvement. However, I have no issues with the product, so it is probably fine.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience with A10 Thunder TPS.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
The solution's support is one of the coolest things about the product. I rate the solution's technical support an eight and a half out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
We are currently having some issues with the implementation. I think it is because the partner is not ready for implementation, and it's not that they don't have the experience. So, even though we have some issues right now with implementation, the product is very good.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's price is one of the coolest things about the product. We may need to pay fifty percent more if we purchase other solutions. For the payments made to A10 Thunder TPS, we have received three-year support.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Professional Services Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Provides the ability to configure many features for DDoS attacks, but it is very difficult to implement
Pros and Cons
- "They give us the ability to configure many features for DDoS. There are many items that we can use."
- "It is very difficult to implement. It should be made a bit easier to implement. There is also a lack of resources on the internet. They need to develop more resources."
What is our primary use case?
We are the main distributor for A10 Networks. It is used as an appliance. It is mainly used to identify problems in the network. It helps us to stop any type of DDoS attack.
We are using its latest version.
What is most valuable?
They give us the ability to configure many features for DDoS. There are many items that we can use.
What needs improvement?
It is very difficult to implement. It should be made a bit easier to implement. There is also a lack of resources on the internet. They need to develop more resources.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been a distributor for more than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is mostly stable.
How are customer service and support?
Their support is good, but it is not excellent.
How was the initial setup?
It is very difficult to do the setup. It needs to be a little bit easier. There are not many resources on the internet for help, and there are also not many people who have knowledge of this product.
Its implementation takes two to three weeks. Two engineers are usually enough.
What other advice do I have?
Before implementing this solution, you should know and get complete information about the features that are possible and that are not possible.
I would rate it a six out of 10. It should be easier to set up. Currently, it is very difficult.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer:
Director Technical Services at TechnoBIZ
Enables us to keep a record of all the invoices and to track accrued sales but I would like to see an advanced reporting feature
Pros and Cons
- "We can keep track of all the customer's requirements. We can forecast our trails and we can forecast our overall financial things."
- "I would like for them to develop an advanced reporting feature."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is for our support ticketing and invoice generation. We're resellers and we provide it to our customers.
Our other use cases are for keeping a record of all the invoices and we use it for our sales to track the accrued sales.
How has it helped my organization?
We can keep track of all the customer's requirements. We can forecast our trails and we can forecast our overall financial things.
What needs improvement?
We are really trying to improve our sales module. When we need to see our exact payments and invoices we can track which payments and invoices are due so that we can make sure that all the invoices are done on time.
I would like for them to develop an advanced reporting feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable. We're using a very basic model and it's the basic version. There are very few features so for those features, it is very stable. If we decide that we're going to implement more features into it, then there could be some concern about the stability of the product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is fine.
We have sixteen users. On the support side when we generate tickets, we are quoted fifty plus customers that are on this solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment only took a few hours. The user training takes at least a day and then the whole site will go up in around a weeks time. It's all web-based so the back ends sometime require us to make changes but overall it's pretty simple and straightforward.
We only require one staff member for maintenance.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Resellers.
Technical Consultant at Westcon
A10 Thunder TPS (Threat Protection System) is the world’s highest-performance DDoS protection solution, leading the industry in precision, intelligent automation, scalability, and performance.
Pros and Cons
- "The GUI is very use-friendly. You can configure it through CLI or GUI, they give you an option to choose. It's a good solution in terms of the appliance itself. It's very light compared to other brands that offer DDoS solutions."
- "They have a cloud scrubbing feature that redirects the traffic if the on-prem appliance can't accommodate a large amount of traffic but it's not available where we are."
What is our primary use case?
One of the largest persistent threats to service uptime is Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS). The networking industry and business analysts are seeing a trend in increasing DDoS attacks. These attacks are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity and increased sophistication. Legacy DDoS protection solutions suffer from the following fatal limitations that have made them ineffective at protecting against these attacks:
• Lack of flexibility
• Inability to scale
What is most valuable?
MULTI-VECTOR ATTACK PROTECTION
Detect and mitigate DDoS attacks of many types, including volumetric, protocol, or resource attacks; application-level attacks; or IoT-based attacks. Hardware acceleration offloads the CPUs and makes Thunder TPS particularly adept to deal with simultaneous multi-vector attacks
For how long have I used the solution?
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and technical support?
How was the initial setup?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The A10 aGalaxy management system provides centralized management of Thunder TPS systems and policies, orchestrates detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks, and delivers a single-pane-of-glass view of the generated reports across all managed Thunder TPS appliances.
No need to license each feature to activate it, it got a perpetual licensing and everything is there, you just have to configure and enable the feature when you need it.
What other advice do I have?
Select Thunder TPS hardware models to benefit from our Security and Policy Engine (SPE) hardware acceleration, leveraging FPGA-based FTA technology and other hardware-optimized packet-processing for highly scalable flow distribution and hardware DDoS protection capabilities.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: distributor
Buyer's Guide
Download our free A10 Thunder TPS Report and get advice and tips from experienced pros
sharing their opinions.
Updated: January 2025
Product Categories
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) ProtectionPopular Comparisons
Cloudflare
Cloudflare One
Arbor DDoS
Imperva DDoS
Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service
AWS Shield
Azure DDoS Protection
Fortinet FortiDDoS
Buyer's Guide
Download our free A10 Thunder TPS Report and get advice and tips from experienced pros
sharing their opinions.
Quick Links
Learn More: Questions:
- What are people's opinions of A10 versus Radware?
- Which product would you choose: A10 Thunder TPS, Cloudflare or Corero?
- We are looking at managed DNS providers and want to know what others are using
- Prolexic vs. Arbor Networks: How do they compare?
- Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
- How does a WAF help to protect against DDoS attacks?
- DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DefensePro and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?
- Which is the best DDoS solution and why?
- When evaluating DDoS Protection, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
- What is the difference between denial of service and distributed denial of service?