Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module White Paper
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CHALLENGE
The data centers for enterprises and service providers face continual pressure to amplify service velocity, improve the reliability and quality of
service, and reduce costs. Applications are still deployed and managed in separate silos across the network where application performance often is
a secondary concern. Organizations use various point products to address the worst challenges in specific locations. Finally, security and regulatory
compliance place further constraints on how IT can react.
IT needs solutions that give it more control over the application infrastructure, that aggregate capabilities to simplify management, and that deliver
highly secure and accelerated application service across the extended enterprise. To meet these challenges, enterprises and service providers require
data-center solutions that:
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Deploy and migrate applications without adding to the application infrastructure
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Scale the application infrastructure
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Have multitier data-center and application security
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Provide distributed workflow
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Consolidate functions, devices, and management
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Increase application throughput
SOLUTION
Unlike application front-end appliances, Cisco ACE is fully integrated with the Cisco network, providing IT teams with a foundation for efficiently
using data-center resources, people, and the systems throughout the infrastructure. The Cisco platform addresses the challenges of optimizing,
scaling, securing, and delivering applications where you need them, when you need them, and with unparalleled control. This solution also helps
to enable high availability for virtualized applications, to optimize applications, to address the requirements for data-center and application security,
and to maximize the performance and resources of data centers to deliver applications at the lowest cost and with the lowest operational overhead.
The Cisco ACE and AVS offerings introduce several technologies for delivering applications in demanding enterprise environments, including
advanced application control through virtualization and role-based access control, high performance, high security, and infrastructure simplification.
These and the other major features of the Cisco ACE and AVS solutions collectively deliver exceptional performance, operational flexibility,
security, and application optimization.
Performance: Latency, Mitigation and Bandwidth Usage Reduction
Cisco ACE and AVS achieve short application response times by incorporating features that enhance network and application performance in
Layer 2 through Layer 7.
As more and more applications are added to a data center, the cost of supporting each application is reduced. Cisco ACE and AVS also reduce
operating overhead costs—which are typically more than half of an IT budget—when implemented on the Cisco Catalyst 6000 Series Switch.
The Cisco ACE module uses the switch for power, space, cooling, and the management interface.