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A10 Thunder TPS pros and cons

Vendor: A10 Networks

4.3 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

A10 Thunder TPS effectively detects and drops malicious traffic using advanced filtering technology, offering instant response and control over mitigation speed. The solution handles large attacks efficiently without capacity issues and scales well for simplified operations. Automation through RESTful API supports customized portal integration, though advanced reporting is necessary. Challenges include inefficient upgrades via aGalaxy, limited online training, and resource-heavy implementation. The machine-learning-powered Zero-day Automated Protection is not yet in use.

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PROS

A10 Thunder TPS has a high success rate in detecting and dropping malicious traffic from legitimate traffic, with minimal effort required for management.

The device features programmable automated defense using RESTful API, allowing for automation and custom user interfaces.

A10 Thunder TPS allows for reduced manual intervention during attacks, saving troubleshooting time and offering instant response to attacks.

Its load balancing capability is considered the most valuable feature.

The support from A10 Networks is appreciated and contributes to a positive experience.

CONS

The upgrade process for the boxes is not efficient, with issues like timeouts occurring during upgrades via A10 aGalaxy.

New features added to TPS are not fully supported by aGalaxy, limiting the ability to use these features through the management platform.

Training is conducted online, but there is a preference for classroom training to improve provisioning experience.

Cloud scrubbing feature is unavailable in certain regions, affecting traffic management when on-prem appliances face high traffic volumes.

Implementation and scaling capabilities are rated lower, with suggestions for improved resources and more accessible documentation.

A10 Thunder TPS Pros review quotes

reviewer1126782

Information Technology Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 13, 2025

I had a rather positive experience with A10 Networks Support Service.

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Sales Account Executive at L8 Group

Jul 8, 2024

The product's initial setup phase is very simple.

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Technology manager at Folha de S. Paolo

Aug 31, 2023

The most valuable feature of A10 Thunder TPS is load balancing.

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IP/DDOS Senior Engineer at Türk Telekom International

May 31, 2023

It is a scalable solution.

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reviewer2074551

Director of Technology at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jan 18, 2023

Thunder TPS has automated mitigation and fully managed support in case the device cannot handle the attack. They have engineers available to respond.

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TD

Director of IT Networks at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Sep 15, 2019

The response time to an attack is instant. We've used some outsourced solutions in the past, out in the cloud, that weren't so quick. But it's all within our control now. We control how fast it mitigates.

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TP

Ethernet IP Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Sep 10, 2019

The solution has reduced the amount of manual intervention required during an attack. We have the inline solution and when it comes to the customers that we have on it, it has saved us some troubleshooting time.

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SOC Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 5, 2019

Based on previous equipment that we had, it's amazing that this device can do what it can do in a 1U form factor. The devices that we have right now have never gone over capacity and we've actually mitigated some pretty large attacks.

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Co-Founder at Acorus Networks

Aug 30, 2019

We selected the solution because of its programmable automated defense using RESTful API. We didn't want to connect to the box. We wanted to be able to do some automation. We wanted to have our own portal because we wanted to connect our customers to our own UI using the A10 API. It has been good and exactly what we need.

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Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 29, 2024

The solution is easy to use and implement in terms of operations.

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A10 Thunder TPS Cons review quotes

reviewer1126782

Information Technology Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 13, 2025

I had issues with the user interface because, when putting settings up, the system asked me for strange things like virtual local networks that I didn't create.

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Sales Account Executive at L8 Group

Jul 8, 2024

The problem here is when you buy another box from A10, they want to put Thunder TPS to run, and it works okay, after which we cannot block it for another solution to be used, which is a problem for me where improvements are needed.

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Technology manager at Folha de S. Paolo

Aug 31, 2023

The solution is a little expensive.

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IP/DDOS Senior Engineer at Türk Telekom International

May 31, 2023

Its documentation could be better.

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reviewer2074551

Director of Technology at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jan 18, 2023

I rate Thunder TPS seven out of 10 for scalability.

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TD

Director of IT Networks at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Sep 15, 2019

The last issue we had to contact them about was just a question of a false-positive. The A10 system wasn't supposed to decide what is a false-positive. So if we send it good traffic, it's supposed to just pass that good traffic through. But we opened this last ticket because the A10 did block some of the good traffic. Their support had to tweak it a little bit, but it wasn't anything that took a long time.

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TP

Ethernet IP Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Sep 10, 2019

If there's one aspect of A10 that needs improvement it would be the training. All of their training is done online, at least in what we've been exposed to. I would like to have a classroom environment for training... It would give [people] a chance to provision it.

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SOC Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 5, 2019

We currently do not use the solution's machine-learning-powered Zero-day Automated Protection because of an issue with it... We also use the aGalaxy platform, which is a management platform for the TPS devices. The issue is that some TPS features were added at the TPS level but weren't carried over to aGalaxy, and we manage all of our devices through aGalaxy. So we can't actually use some of the new features that are available on the TPS because that functionality doesn't exist in aGalaxy. That is one of my biggest complaints.

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Co-Founder at Acorus Networks

Aug 30, 2019

The upgrade process for the boxes is not efficient. We have to go through the A10 aGalaxy where we have issues, like timeouts. They told me it was fixed in the latest version, but I tried to do it on the Portal and it is not working all the time.

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Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 29, 2024

The solution needs improvement in terms of fail-open.

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