Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module White Paper
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Step 7. Save the restored configuration, and the configurations for all other contexts.
ACE-pri/Admin# wr mem all
What‟s New in the Cisco ACE30 Module?
Cisco ACE30 module adds to existing features in the Cisco ACE10 ACE20 module Software Release train 2(3.x)
and Cisco ACE 4710 Software Release train 3(2.x), bringing parity to the features available on the two separate
hardware form factors.
The Cisco ACE30 module significantly increases the connection per second (CPS) performance typically doubling
the CPS performance of the Cisco ACE10 orACE20 modules. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) offloading performance
is also double the SSL transactions-per-second (TPS) rate and SSL bulk throughput of the previous generation of
Cisco ACE modules. Customers adopting end-to-end SSL solution can scale much further as the Cisco ACE30
module provide an order of magnitude increase in SSL TPS performance in common end-to-end SSL deployment
scenarios.
In addition to offering a significant boost to Cisco ACE performance, the Cisco ACE30 module provides a wide
range of new functionality. The following is a high-level summary of the new features available on the Cisco ACE30
module:
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HTTP compression: Support for the following output file formats: GZIP (RFC1952), X-GZIP (RFC2616)
and ZLIB (aka DEFLATE) RFC1950 for HTTP 1.1.
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IPv6: Dual-stack and Network Address Translation (NAT) capabilities on the Cisco ACE product family
allow customers to seamlessly migrate their networks as the demand for IPv6 traffic increases.
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Dynamic workload scaling (DWS)
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In-band TCP health checking: Ability to determine the health of a server based on Layer 4 TCP analysis
of application traffic between ACE and the backend server.
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Cipher-based load balancing: Distribution of application traffic based on the SSL cipher information.
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Cookie strings: Efficient HTTP sticky load balancing through the ability to set cookie value in the HTTP
response from server to client.
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KAL-AP enhancements: Improved global application availability through KAL-AP enhancements in global
server load balancing (GSLB).
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Probe port inheritance: Greatly simplifies the configuration for probes, especially in large-scale
environment supporting multiple services per server.
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Cisco TelePresence
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audit trail support: Syslogs for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) load balancing
have been added for Cisco ACE integration with Cisco TelePresence solutions.