Prepared by R.R. Donnelley Financial -- EX-10.17




 Exhibit 10.17 

CONFIDENTIALTREATMENT REQUESTED 

CONFIDENTIAL PORTIONS OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN REDACTED AND HAVE BEEN 

SEPARATELY FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 

A10 AND RESELLER CONFIDENTIAL 
 FIFTH
AMENDMENT 
 TO RESELLER AGREEMENT 

This Fifth Amendment (the “Fifth Amendment”), dated as of April 2, 2012, is made in respect of that certain
Reseller Agreement between A10 Networks, Inc. (“A10 Networks”) and NEC Corporation (“NEC” or “Reseller”) dated April 2, 2009 (the “Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein
but not otherwise defined shall, have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement. 
 WHEREAS the parties entered into the Agreement to
appoint NEC as a non-exclusive reseller of A10 Networks’ Products for the territory of Japan; 
 WHEREAS the parties desire to amend
the Agreement within this said Fifth Amendment to Agreement; 
 NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and promises set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which both parties hereby acknowledge, A10 Networks and Reseller agree as follows: 
  

	I.	Amendment of the Agreement. Reseller and A10 Networks hereby agree to amend the Agreement as follows: 


The following service plan outside the scope of the Service Plan limited to Section 1 through Section 9 of Reseller Agreement Exhibit
B is added: 
 A10 Networks Special Service Plan for NTT docomo sn-mode 

 

	 	1.	Service Plan for post support. 

  

	 	1.1	Additional support fee shall be mutually agreed by Reseller and A10 Networks. This additional support fee is [***] from April 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012. 


 

	 	1.2	Service Plan is between A10 Networks and Reseller. Resellers are responsible for selling their own service contract to End Users, and Reseller must be the 


 

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primary contact to End Users. End Users should not contact A10 Networks directly. 

  

	 	1.3	Service Plan is limited to units of products that mutually agreed by Reseller and A10 Network based on serial number. In case there is any change, it has to be notified to A10 Networks in advance and required to have
agreement. 

  

	 	1.4	Priority issue is defined here as the customer’s production network is down or there is continuous serious impact to the customer’s business operations and it is obvious that A10 Networks’ product is the
cause of a problem. For example, continuous reload/reboot, unsuccessful HA failover, and significant packet loss. 

  

	 	1.5	In occurrence of multiple priority issues at the same time, A10 Networks will make best effort to resolve each issue in sequential manner. 


 

	 	1.6	A10 Networks shall provide 24x7 Support phone and email access in occurrence of priority issue. 

  

	 	1.7	Priority issue will take fast escalation path with commercially reasonable best effort. 

  

	 	2.	Service Plan for pro-active support 

  

	 	2.1	Additional support fee shall be mutually agreed by Reseller and A10 Networks. This additional support fee is [***] from April 1, 2012 through September 30, 2012. 


 

	 	2.2	Service Plan is limited to units’ of products that mutually agreed by Reseller and A10 Networks based on serial number. In case there is any change, it has to be notified to A10 Networks in advance and required to
have agreement. 

  

	 	2.3	A10 Networks will make best effort to provide bug information of product that may affect the customer’s service based on feature the customer uses as in timely manner. 


 

	 	2.4	Bug information shall be limited to software version and feature the customer is using in production network based on the.customer’s configuration. 


 

	 	3.	FR (Change Request, New Feature) 

  

	 	3.1	Statement of Work (SOW) 

  

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 SOW will be written specifically for each feature. The development fee will depend on
feature requirements, feature complexity, system and hardware implications and time line. For the SOW, the averaged software development and testing cost to base on is [***]/engineer per day. 

 

	 	4.	Reseller Requirement 

 The obligation of A10 Networks to provide Service Plan is subject to
Reseller’s fulfillment of the following conditions. Reseller understands and agrees that part or all of Service Plan may not be provided by Al0 Networks to Reseller, as a result of Reseller not being able to fulfillment any one of the following
conditions. 
  

	 	4.1	Reseller shall maintain adequate amount of spare units, and evaluation units of Product, to support End Users. 

  

	 	4.2	Reseller shall provide first level support to End User or sub-reseller, and isolate the problem to a point where it can be identified as a problem of the Product, before reporting the problem to Al0 Networks.


  

	 	4.3	Reseller shall cooperate with A10 Networks in providing necessary information, including but not limited to detailed problem description, replication procedure, network diagram, and End User environment, necessary for
Al0 Networks to perform Service Plan. For RMA, Reseller is to provide the Product serial number of End User Product, and the serial number of the Reseller spare unit the End User Product is to replace. 


 

	 	4.4	Reseller shall maintain adequate qualified technical personnel, including support engineers to perform basic hardware and software configuration and troubleshooting, and perform remedial hardware maintenance of Product.
Reseller representative contacting Al0 Networks TAC must be trained and qualified by A10 Networks. 

  

	II.	Fifth Amendment Miscellaneous. As expressly amended hereby, the Agreement shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof, and shall constitute the entire agreement between
the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter contained herein and therein. The Agreement may only be further amended in writing signed by both the parties thereto. This Fifth Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the state of California, the United States of America. The United Nation Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this Fifth Amendment, the Agreement or any services, software or goods provided in
connection herewith or therewith. This Fifth Amendment may be executed in one or more 

  

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 counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which, when taken
together, shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
 [Signature page follows.] 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fifth Amendment to be executed by their duly authorized officers as of the day and
year first above written. 
  

			
	A10 Networks, Inc.
		
	By:	 	  /s/ Lee Chen

	Name:	 	Lee Chen
	Title:	 	Founder and CEO
	Date:	 	June 27, 2012
	
	NEC Corporation
		
	By:	 	  /s/ Taiji Yanagawa

	Name:	 	Taiji Yanagawa
	Title:	 	Assistance General Manager
	Date:	 	April 4, 2012


  
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