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Array Networks
Company typePrivate
IndustryApplication Delivery Networking
Founded2000
HeadquartersMilpitas, California
ProductsAPV Series Application Delivery Controllers, AG Series SSL VPN, AVX Series Virtualized Appliances, aCelera WAN Optimization Controllers
WebsiteOfficial website

Array Networks is a global technology company that addresses problems related to securely delivering enterprise applications to end users.Array Networks offers application delivery networking with over 5,000 worldwide customer deployments. Founded in 2000, and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Array offers application delivery controller, (ADC), Secure Sockets Layer, (SSL) VPN and WAN optimization controllers targeted to enterprise private cloud, IaaS, and SaaS solutions. The company has over 300 employees worldwide, including the United States, China, Japan and India. [1]

Array has received industry accolades from Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant (2014, 2015), Frost & Sullivan, 2011 Excellence Award; and Info-Tech Research Group, 2012 Innovator. Additionally, CEO Michael Zhao received the CEO World Award in the CEO of the year category in 2013 and CFO Sameena Ahmed was named the Silicon Valley /San Jose Business Journal CFO of the Year in 2010.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Array is a silver founding member of the OPNFV Project, a community of suppliers in the industry working to develop an open source reference platform for NFV. The platform is intended to help accelerate the implementation of NFV and the introduction of new products and services springing from it. [6] Array sells through direct and resale channels and offers resellers marketing and communications, technical, lead and training support. [7]

APV Series Application Delivery Controllers

The Array Networks APV Series application delivery controllers are built on a 64-bit SpeedCore® platform and scale applications for data center and virtualized cloud environments. [8] Customers include Cash Depot, eClinicalWorks and Yourmembership.com[9][10][11]


In 2008, Array Networks first introduced its (AppVelocity) APV Series that consists of Application Delivery Controllers for SSL acceleration, load balancingandtraffic managementat layers 2-7 for enterprise data centers and Web sites.[12] In 2013, Array released the APV 2600, 5600, 10600 and 10650 appliances. Features included server load balancing, link load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB), connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, compression, caching, traffic shaping and application security.[13] These appliances support 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and multi-core processing and multi-core SSL acceleration, ranging from 10 Gbps of throughput to 120 Gbps of throughput, 5000 2048-bit SSL transactions per second to 70,000 2048-bit SSL transactions per second and 3 Gbps of SSL throughput to 25 Gbps of SSL throughput.[14]

In 2014, Array released the virtual AVX10650 multi-tenant application delivery controller that has 8 fully partitioned ADC instances to support multiple load-balancing-as-a-service (LBaaS) tenants, enterprise departments or applications, or similar shared environments and has its own dedicated input/output, CPU, memory, and SSL resources in multi-tenant environments.[15]

In 2015, Array released the a multi-tenant, virtualized AVX10650 ADC appliance that offers 4, 8, 12 or 16 fully independent instances each with its own I/O, CPU, SSL card and memory. [16] It can handle more than 2K transactions per second (TPS) for 2048-bit SSL, and up to 17K SSL TPS (2048-bit) in the ‘large’ configuration. The AVX7600 introduced in March 2015, supports up to 16 entry, eight small, four medium or two large virtual appliances per system and enables the mixing of ADC and secure access gateway instances.[17]


References

  1. ^ Hoovers, "Array Networks, Inc Company Information", Hoovers,
  2. ^ VAR India, "Array Networks wins Frost & Sullivan Award", May 23, 2011
  3. ^ Mark Fabbi, Andrew Lerner,"Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers", Gartner Inc., October 21, 2014
  4. ^ CEO World, "About the CEO World Awards"
  5. ^ Reuters, "Array Networks` Sameena Ahmed Wins CFO of the Year Award", November 10, 2010
  6. ^ Paula Bernier,"ADC Vendor Array Networks Helps Launch OPNFV Project", NFVZone, December 17, 2014
  7. ^ SearchITChannel,"Array Networks Partner Program Checklist"
  8. ^ Paula Bernier,"Array Networks Announces Availability of First Gold-Certified IPv6 Application Delivery Controllers", InfoTech Spotlight, June 8, 2012
  9. ^ Penny Crosman, "Cash Depot Upgrades Speed, Security of ATM Network", American Banker, December 17, 2013
  10. ^ Nicole Freeman, "Array Networks ADCs enable scalability, availability and security in the cloud at eClinicalWorks mega data centers", Health IT Security, February 21, 2014
  11. ^ Chuck Moozakis, "As encryption standards tighten, Array retools ADC, eyes SaaS clients" SearchNetworking, November 11, 2013
  12. ^ Ann Bednarz, "Array Networks on a Green Streak", Network World, April 3, 2008
  13. ^ "Array Networks Ships New Application Delivery Controller Line", Database Trends and Applications, May 13, 2013
  14. ^ "Array Networks’ Latest APV Models Hit the Channel", ChannelProNetwork, April 17, 2013
  15. ^ Rahul Arora, "Array Announces Availability of AVX10650 Multi-tenant ADC Appliance", TMCNet.com, July 16, 2014
  16. ^ "Array announces the second generation of the AVX10650 virtualized application delivery controller", NSS, February 3, 2015
  17. ^ Sonia Groff,"Array introduces AVX7600 virtual ADC and SSL support system", SearchNetworking.com, April 10, 2015