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Design Guide

Oracle 10g Application Server Suite Deployment with Cisco
Application Control Engine Deployment Guide, Version 1.0

This design guide describes how to deploy the The Cisco

Application Control Engine (Cisco ACE) by Cisco

Systems

with the Oracle 10g Application Sever Suite. This guide was created through the collaborative efforts of

Cisco and Oracle as a part of a larger effort to provied Cisco and Oracle solutions to the market. Additional design

guides for other product combinations, and other related documents are available from Cisco and Oracle.

Oracle Application Server 10g offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying enterprise applications, portals,

and Web services. Based on a powerful and scalable J2EE server, Oracle Application Server 10g provides complete business integration

and business intelligence suites, and best-of-breed portal software. Designed for grid computing as well as full lifecycle support for

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Oracle Application Server provides unmatched scalability, availability, manageability, and security.

Oracle Application Server 10g is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, which bring greater agility, better

decision-making, and reduced cost and risk to diverse IT environments.

The Cisco ACE performs high-performance server load balancing (SLB) among groups of servers, server farms, firewalls, and other

network devices, based on Layer 3 as well as Layer 4 through Layer 7 packet information. The ACE can also terminate and initiate

SSL-encrypted traffic, which enables it to perform intelligent load balancing while ensuring secure end-to-end encryption. The module

is capable of internetworking speeds of 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) by default, and can achieve speeds of 8 Gbps with the purchase

of an upgrade license. a high-performance and feature-rich product that provides application-aware functions on the network, including

Layer 4-7 load balancing, TCP optimization, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offloading, etc.

The Oracle 10g Application Server suite, when deployed with Cisco ACE, provides a solution for enterprises that offers security,

scalability, and availability.

In May 2006, Oracle validated the interoperability of the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine with the Oracle Application Server

10g as tested and documented by Cisco in this “Oracle 10g Application Server Suite Deployment with Cisco Application Control

Engine Deployment Guide Version 1.0.”