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application delivery controller

Software running in commodity hardware or a specialized appliance that provides load balancing, authentication and accounting for application servers. Primarily a load balancer with enhanced features, an application delivery controller (ADC) resides behind the firewall before the servers. See application server and load balancing.
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The report on the global application delivery controller market provides qualitative and quantitative analysis for the period from 2017 to 2025.
Global Application Delivery Controller Market 2017-2019 & 2025
The Dell'Oro Group Data Center Appliance Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, units shipped and average selling prices for Application Delivery Controller (Modular, Fixed and Virtual) and WAN Optimization (Physical and Virtual).
Cloud and Virtualization in Data Center Boosts WAN
By virtualizing blades and CPUs, essentially creating a single, powerful processing matrix, this new breed of chassis-based application delivery controller can scale nearly linearly.
"Virtualisation and the other green computing initiative"
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) said that the A10 Thunder and AX Series application delivery controller (ADC) product lines, after thorough testing and evaluation, have received web application firewall (WAF) version 2.1 certification from ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon which offers vendor-neutral testing and certification.
A10 Networks' firewall certified by ICSA Labs
We have a virtual application delivery controller tool that can run in a VM environment called Stingray.
WAN Optimisation is Beyond Bandwidth
Riverbed Technology has announced enhancements to its software and virtual application delivery controller (ADC) product family, Stingray.
Riverbed enhances Stingray family
F5 expanded its lead over Cisco in the application delivery controller segment, garnering 33.9% of the overall market, while Cisco accounted for 26.6%.
Understand the variables: analysis tools and gigabit-capture technology are important when gigabit links are deployed
Kara Sprague, in the new role of Senior Vice President, General Manager of Application Delivery Controller, and Ram Krishnan, in the new role of Senior Vice President, General Manager of Security, will lead product portfolio management and product and solutions marketing for their respective business units.
F5 Networks names Tom Fountain chief strategy officer
Summary: An affiliate of Pulse Secure has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire assets associated with the Virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) product family from Brocade Communications Systems.
Pulse Secure to acquire Brocade's vADC business
jetNEXUS sells exclusively through its network of channel partners working closely with them to help fulfil increased customer demand for Application Delivery Controller (ADC) technology.
jetNEXUS Appoints Middle East Distributor SCD
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