Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Informationshandbuch

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Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Application
Switches

What is the Cisco

ACE Application Control Engine family of products?

The Cisco ACE family, a comprehensive application delivery solution, is a part of the Cisco

portfolio of Data Center 3.0 solutions.

The Cisco ACE family includes highly scalable application switching modules for Cisco

Catalyst

6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers. The Cisco ACE modules

consolidate a broad range of services in one device.

Cisco ACE application switch technology is now also available in a convenient appliance form

factor for those deployments requiring a standalone platform from a Cisco Catalyst 6500

Series switch. The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance uses the full range of Cisco application delivery

technology, including Layer 4 and 7 content switching, extensive application security, and

server offload for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and TCP processing, as well as an expanded

set of application acceleration capabilities. Used to increase the performance of data center-

based web applications, the Cisco ACE 4710 uses asymmetric compression, FlashForward,

and other patented techniques to reduce the volume of transferred data and improve

response times to end users, thus providing a better overall end-user experience.

The Cisco ACE family also includes the Cisco ACE XML Gateway. This appliance extends the

core Cisco ACE function set to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and web services,

including security, scalability, and acceleration.

To help ensure data center availability, the Cisco ACE application delivery solution is

integrated with the Cisco market-leading data center availability system, Cisco ACE Global

Site Selector (GSS), which provides intelligent failover between data centers to help ensure

business continuity and provide full Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host

Configuration Protocol (DHCP) support, as well as protection from DNS-based distributed-

denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

What is the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance?

The Cisco ACE 4710, a part of the Cisco portfolio of Data Center 3.0 solutions and a crucial

component of the Cisco ACE product family, is a powerful new application delivery and

optimization solution for today’s data centers. The Cisco ACE 4710 helps ensure business

continuity by enhancing application availability, improves business productivity by accelerating

applications, and lowers operating costs by minimizing data center power and cooling needs.

What customer challenges do Cisco ACE application switches solve?

The Cisco ACE application switches—the Cisco ACE Module and Cisco ACE 4710

Appliance—address the broad set of challenges involved in managing the deployment and

delivery of applications from the data center to local and remote users:

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Support for data center consolidation by reducing the required number of servers and load

balancers and the power and cooling requirements