A10 Networks Orion 5G Security Suite Delivers Business Transformation for Leading Service Providers
December 11 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Mobile Operators Working with A10 have Future
Proofed Their Networks as Mainstream Adoption of 5G Starts to
Transform Markets
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced its Orion 5G Security
Suite, which enables mobile carriers and service providers to be
ready for the business transformation 5G and NFV brings. The suite
allows customers to meet the requirements needed today and helps
them future proof their networks for tomorrow by delivering
security, scalability, agility and analytics, while integrating
with an industry-leading partner ecosystem. A10 brings unique
expertise from working with many of the production 5G networks that
are now operational around the world.
A10 Networks has been at the forefront of initial 5G rollouts
with tier-one carriers worldwide and is working with many others to
plan for their future 5G initiatives. With the announcement of the
5G Orion Security Suite, service providers have a proven
comprehensive suite of secure applications services that have been
engineered for cloud-native architecture to aid in making their 5G
and NFV strategies successful. The Orion 5G Security Suite enables
advanced security and reliability functions as individual services
by modularizing and offering them as a service layer with a set of
connected technologies that employ automated intelligence, machine
learning and centralized visibility and control.
Partnering with tier-one operators, A10 has honed its solutions
to meet the critical 5G requirements for improved security,
reliability and performance learned from 5G network rollouts over
the last year. A10 provides an interconnected suite – virtual or
physical – resulting in lower latency, larger scale, higher
reliability and lower TCO—all of which have been required for the
emerging 5G use cases customers are enabling.
In the last year to 18 months, first movers have deployed the
first wave of 5G networks and demonstrated improved customer
satisfaction and increased average revenue per user (ARPU), despite
an increase in network demands, including higher data usage and
download rates.
“A10’s commitment to overcoming the challenges of network
operators is evidenced by our announcement of the Orion 5G Security
Suite and accompanying ACOS® 5.1 release with key architectural
changes that meet the KPIs operators require in their new
software-only deployments,” said Dhrupad Trivedi, president and CEO
of A10 Networks. “We have partnered with key technology providers
and have delivered on a comprehensive set of solutions to uniquely
enable 5G networks. The rising tide of proven production
deployments across multiple continents demonstrates that A10 is
best-positioned to address new market needs.”
The Orion 5G Security Suite addresses existing and emerging
mobile network architecture requirements for agility, consolidated
services, greater scale, and lower latency communications across
the Gi-LAN, virtualized evolved packet core (vEPC), and
multi-access edge computing (MEC) environments. The Orion 5G
Security Suite’s disaggregated, cloud-native security services
provide agility while maintaining scale and performance by
leveraging cutting-edge technologies. It also goes beyond just
protecting the data plane through a GiFW by adding protection for
the control plane and signaling plane with full visibility.
The Orion 5G Security Suite represents a major evolution of the
company’s 5G strategy outlined in late 2018 by providing a
comprehensive solution for mobile operators and other service
providers to successfully deploy 5G non-standalone (NSA) and
standalone (SA) solutions at hyperscale for 5G devices and new NFVi
requirements.
- 4G to 5G standard compatibility and investment
protection: A10 supports existing 4G and 3G network
architectures and use cases for the Gi-LAN and EPC, while meeting
the more demanding requirements for 5G architectures, including the
cloud-native agility needed for MEC. These solutions can be
deployed in today’s infrastructure but are future proofed for
successful 5G deployments. This includes functional consolidation
for application visibility and control, subscriber-aware
intelligent traffic steering, Gi/SGi firewall with carrier-grade
NAT (CGNAT), GTP/SCTP firewall, integrated DDoS for frequently
attacked services, intelligent traffic steering and more.
- Scale for increased subscriber demand: 5G demands are
inherently different than 4G, with smaller packet sizes, more
throughput, and higher concurrent session counts. A10 solutions can
scale concurrent sessions to multi-billion levels and throughput to
multi-terabit levels in a scale-out cluster. 5G deployments can
benefit from compact and efficient options, for example, 385 Gbps
in compact physical network functions (PNFs), or high-performance
180 Gbps virtual network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network
functions (CNFs). Support for Kubernetes and Docker containers are
available now. The compact PNF form factors and very
high-performance software offerings (including containerized) are
especially beneficial in emerging MEC use cases where space and
power are at a premium.
- Core infrastructure security: With new user-plane and
control-plane security requirements coupled with the increased
attack surface and scale brought by 5G and IoT device
proliferation, more advanced, scalable and automated approaches are
needed. To guarantee uptime and ensure control- and user-plane
security, components include edge firewall, GTP firewall, Gi/SGi
firewall, control- and user-plane policy enforcement, DNS
protection, RAN security gateways (SeGW), and more. Additionally,
A10’s advanced DDoS protection solution includes artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities with its
Zero-day Attack Protection (ZAP), continuous base lining, and
One-DDoS for distributed intelligence. This provides full
visibility into all packets versus traditional sample-based-only
solutions. Network-wide ML-powered DDoS detection and mitigation
for in-house protection can also be offered as a customer scrubbing
service.
- NFV for agile infrastructure: A10’s solutions can be
delivered in a variety of form factors to meet the demands of the
emerging NFVi architecture including, VNFs, CNFs, bare metal and
PNFs. These solutions are integrated with leading NFVi
architectures and interoperate with multiple MANO environments for
faster network roll-out and optimized performance and agility. A10
also provides flexible software licensing and consumption with
FlexPool® subscription-based capacity pooling licensing.
- Orchestration and analytics for lower TCO and reduced
downtime: A10 Harmony Controller® provides actionable
intelligence to manage subscriber services, meet law enforcement
agency mandates and compliance, and deliver per-subscriber
analytics. Harmony Controller provides visibility, management,
orchestration and automation. Coordination of distributed One-DDoS
data from all the Orion 5G Security Suite solutions is seamlessly
orchestrated from the integrated aGalaxy® TPS system.
- Ecosystem partners for a broader solution: A10’s
products integrate with multiple third-party solutions and vendors,
ranging from DevOps tools, such as Ansible, to providers of 5G
solutions such as Ericsson, Red Hat, NEC, Tech Mahindra and
Lenovo.
A10’s solutions continue to evolve with emerging 5G, public
interoperability testing and related standards specified by the
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), Linux Foundation,
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 3rd Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP), European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI), and others. A10 recently publicly demonstrated
the Orion 5G Security Suite with a fully containerized
carrier-class firewall with CGNAT in an end-to-end 5G
non-stand-alone (NSA) network, collaboratively with the Linux
Foundation and Red Hat, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
The legacy security services cannot cope with the exploding
scale of new 5G and IoT threats. The A10 Orion 5G Security Suite
leverages automation and big data models via enhanced ML and AI for
more autonomous network operations. A10’s management and controller
technologies are key foundations delivering on this
requirement.
Availability
The Orion 5G Security Suite, available now, consists of the
integrated A10 Harmony Controller, Thunder® CFW and Thunder TPS
solutions. Thunder CFW ACOS 5.1 is available in December 2019.
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A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) enables service providers, cloud
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multi-cloud applications are secure. With advanced analytics,
machine learning and intelligent automation, business-critical
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in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif. and serves
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