Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Aggregierten Daten
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New Cisco ACE Application Control Engine ACE30 Module Hardware
and Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0)
and Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0)
Unified Architecture across multiple hardware form factors and Superior Capacity to handle web
transaction loads are enabled with the new ACE30 Module complementing the existing ACE 4710
Appliance. Both the Cisco ACE30 Module and the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance are powered by the new
Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0) which introduces new features in addition to providing similar
functionality across the two hardware form factors.
The Cisco ACE30 Module for the Cisco Catalyst
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6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers is one of the
industry-leading application switches, increasing the availability, accelerating the performance, and enhancing the
security of data center applications.
The Cisco ACE30 Module allows enterprises and service providers 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 and load balancers
New Cisco ACE30 Module
The new Cisco ACE30 Module plugs into a single slot of a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch or Cisco 7600 Series
Router.
Cisco ACE30 Module hardware provides the following new and superior features in the module form factor:
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New web application acceleration capability through hardware-based HTTP compression with a maximum
throughput of 6 Gbps
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Superior SSL offload performance compared to the Cisco ACE10 and ACE20 Modules, doubling the
maximum performance limit
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Improved Layer 4 and 7 performance powered by the latest generation of network processors
New Features in Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0)
Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0) runs on the new Cisco ACE30 Module and the existing Cisco ACE 4710
appliance. The release does not run on the Cisco ACE10 or ACE20 Module.
Cisco ACE Software Release 4.1.0 adds to existing features in the Cisco ACE Module Software 2(3.0) release train
and Cisco ACE 4710 Software 3(2.1) release train, bringing parity to the features available on the two separate
hardware form factors: the Cisco ACE30 Module and Cisco ACE 4710 appliance.
The following new features, detailed in Table 1, are available on the Cisco ACE30 Module running Cisco ACE
Software Release A4(1.0) in comparison to the Cisco ACE10 or ACE20 Module running Cisco ACE Software
Release A2(3.0):