Case Study: Grand View Research, Inc achieves scalable, high-performance ADC load balancing with Advantech's FWA-6520

Grand View Research, Inc - Customer Case Study

Grand View Research, Inc. identified rapidly growing demand in the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market driven by globalization, BYOD, and rising data‑center traffic—creating challenges for scalability, high availability, SSL termination, security (WAF, DDoS) and support for big‑data L4–7 functions. To meet these needs, Advantech supplied its FWA‑6520 series high‑performance load‑balancing platform as the vendor solution.

Advantech’s FWA‑6520 is a 2U, dual‑processor appliance (Intel Xeon E5‑2600 v4), scalable to 8–22 cores and up to 512 GB RDIMM memory, with 80 PCIe lanes supporting up to eight Network Mezzanine Cards for multiple 40GbE or 100GbE links, plus remote management and hot‑swappable FRUs for high availability. By delivering this platform Advantech enabled the required throughput, modular I/O expansion and operational resilience to address the market needs Grand View Research, Inc. highlighted—measurable capabilities include up to 512 GB memory, multi‑40/100GbE I/O and support for up to 8 NMCs to scale ADC performance and reduce downtime.

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