Case Study: University of Kansas Hospital achieves high-performance, cost-effective server load balancing and scalable Exchange support with A10 Networks

Premier Academic Medical Center Required Enterprise Level Server Load Balancing (SLB) Solution

The University of Kansas Hospital, a large regional academic medical center with roughly 5,500 employees across 50 locations, faced an urgent infrastructure challenge: its server load balancing (SLB) equipment was reaching end-of-life just as the organization planned a migration from GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange and expansion to Microsoft Lync, virtualization and multi-tenant services. The hospital needed a proven, enterprise‑grade SLB solution to support two data centers, multi-site clustering and future growth while maintaining high availability and ease of management.

The hospital selected and deployed A10 Networks Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) as a cost-effective, all‑in‑one SLB platform; A10 delivered higher throughput and port density (enabling removal of DMZ switches), carrier-class performance, ACOS-based scalability, and a no‑license feature model. The implementation was seamless—no failures or user complaints—and delivered stellar performance, lower total cost of ownership, reduced rack/power needs and a scalable, multi-site clustered architecture that met current needs and supports future expansion.

University of Kansas Hospital

Robert Rowland

Systems Engineer, The University of Kansas Hospital