A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a leading provider of secure application and network solutions, today announced the A10 AI Gateway, an intelligent control plane engineered to centralize, secure, and optimize artificial intelligence operations across modern enterprises. Scheduled for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2026, the solution delivers unified routing, real-time cost governance, and policy enforcement across AI agents, business applications, and large language models (LLMs).
As enterprise adoption moves beyond experimental sandboxes into core business workflows, organizations face an explosion of multi-model environments and autonomous AI agents. This fragmented landscape introduces critical challenges: opaque spending, security blind spots, unpredictable latency, and the absence of centralized governance. The A10 AI Gateway directly resolves these friction points by consolidating all enterprise AI traffic into a single, high-performance management and security plane.
“Enterprises are being asked to move fast on AI and stay in control at the same time,” said Dhrupad Trivedi, President and CEO of A10 Networks. “AI use is spreading faster than teams can discover, govern, or secure it, driving up costs and leaving no single place to set the rules. The A10 AI Gateway gives organizations one intelligent control plane to see how AI is being used, govern access to models, and dynamically match every request to the right model at the right cost. Coupled with our integrated portfolio, we are providing customers with a complete, sovereign path to scale AI adoption with confidence instead of trading speed for control.”
Key Architectural Capabilities
- Smart, Complexity-Based Routing: Moving past static routing rules and basic metering, the gateway evaluates the intent and complexity of every prompt in real time. It dynamically steers routine processing to low-cost, lightweight models while routing advanced reasoning workloads to high-capability LLMs, maximizing performance while trimming token expenses.
- Identity-Aware AI Access Control: Integrates natively with existing enterprise directory services (e.g., Active Directory, LDAP, IdPs) to enforce role-based access policies. IT and compliance teams can seamlessly apply distinct model permissions, data access controls, and operational guardrails for specific groups, such as engineering, finance, or HR.
- Granular Traffic and Token Budget Governance: Provides actionable, per-request financial tracking in dollars alongside automated token limits. IT administrators can define hard token budgets, soft-threshold alerts, and rate limits (tokens per minute and requests per minute) by team, project, or API key to eliminate bill shock.
- Full-Lifecycle Security via A10 Portfolio: Seamlessly complements A10’s AI security ecosystem—including TrojAI, A10 AI Firewall, and ThreatX. Organizations gain comprehensive, end-to-end protection spanning pre-deployment red teaming, runtime prompt defense, and robust network/API-layer safeguards.
- Sovereign, Customer-Hosted Deployment: Built to run as standalone software or high-performance integrated hardware entirely within the enterprise perimeter. Deployable on-premises, across private clouds, and in air-gapped environments, the platform ensures organizations retain total ownership of proprietary data, models, and compliance policies—a crucial advantage over public, cloud-bound gateways.
Availability
A10 AI Gateway is scheduled to become available in the fourth quarter of 2026.