Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Datenbogen
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Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module for Cisco Catalyst
6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers
6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers
Product Overview
The Cisco
®
ACE Application Control Engine Module for the Cisco Catalyst
®
6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600
Series Routers represents the next generation of application switches for increasing availability, acceleration, and
security of data center applications.
The Cisco ACE Module allows enterprises to accomplish four primary IT objectives for application delivery:
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Increase application availability
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Accelerate application performance
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Secure the data center and critical business applications
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Facilitate data center consolidation through the use of fewer servers, load balancers, and firewalls.
The Cisco ACE Module (Figure 1) achieves these goals through a broad set of intelligent Layer 4 load-balancing and
Layer 7 content-switching technologies integrated with leading-edge acceleration and security capabilities. A crucial
design element of Cisco ACE, and a differentiator between the Cisco solution and other solutions in the marketplace,
is its ability to use virtualized architecture and role-based administration capabilities that streamline and reduce the
cost of operations involved in deploying, scaling, accelerating, and protecting applications.
The Cisco ACE Module provides best-in-industry scalability and throughput for managing application traffic, up to 16
Gbps in a single module; up to four modules can be run in a single Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series chassis, upgradeable
through software licenses or new module additions, thus providing IT with long-term investment protection and
scalability.
Additionally, through its unique virtualization capabilities, Cisco ACE enables IT to provision and deliver a broad
range of multiple applications from a single Cisco ACE Module, bringing increased scalability for application
provisioning to the data center.
To increase application availability, the Cisco ACE Module uses best-in-class application switching algorithms
coupled with highly available system software and hardware.
The Cisco ACE Module greatly improves server efficiency through highly flexible application traffic management as
well as the offloading of CPU-intensive tasks such as SSL encryption and decryption processing and TCP session
management.
Cisco ACE is designed to serve as the last line of defense for servers and applications in data centers. The Cisco
ACE Module performs deep packet inspection and blocks malicious attacks. Highly scalable integrated security
enables IT professionals to comprehensively secure high-value applications in the data center and facilitates
consolidation in the data center.