SK Telecom Deployed A10 Networks Thunder CFW for the World's First 5G Commercial Service Network

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced that SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile network operator, has deployed its Thunder CFW (Convergent Firewall) as part of core equipment of SK Telecom’s 5G network. SK Telecom launched the world's first commercial service on April 3, 2019. “South Korea is leading the 5G rollout, where big investments in infrastructure and cellular technology has given it first-mover advantage. Our unique value propositions of high-performance, consolidated application services, were completely aligned with SK Telecom’s 5G SGi/Gi-LAN and multi-access edge computing (MEC) requirements. Our team is excited to work with SKT as we believe the 5G market opportunity in Korea is significantly larger than with 4G,” said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10 Networks. A10 Networks' Thunder 14045 CFW is a hardware physical network function (PNF) platform that supports up to 300 Gbps throughput and 512 million concurrent sessions per second and supports carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) and NAT64 IPv6 translation for SK Telecom’s new 5G-based IP services. The A10 Networks solution will support all the requirements of SK Telecom’s 5G services: