Case Study: Newcastle University achieves 50% bandwidth reduction and high-performance application delivery with A10 Networks Application Delivery Controllers

Newcastle University Selects A10 Networks Application Delivery Controllers for Critical International Learning Environment

Newcastle University, a Russell Group research university with growing international campuses in Malaysia and Singapore, needed a modern, high-performance Application Delivery Controller after Microsoft’s ISA load‑balancing platform was discontinued. With around a thousand servers, extensive VLE and Exchange workloads, and rapidly expanding overseas student numbers, the IT team required a scalable, secure solution to support global services and future initiatives.

The university deployed two A10 Networks ADCs in an active/passive failover, enabling SSL offload, MAPI and HTTP load balancing, and HTTP compression. The rollout was smooth and transparent, delivering 100% uptime since the change, roughly 50% bandwidth savings from compression, simple reporting and management, and plans to extend A10’s SoftAX software ADC to unify delivery across its international campuses.

Newcastle University

David Clark

Infrastructure Systems Specialist, Newcastle University