Cisco Cisco Application Extension Platform for SRE White Paper
White Paper
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Summary
Branch offices are experiencing increased pressure to support an ever increasingly demanding
workforce with more and more application services. While expanding the application portfolio in
the branch, these same enterprises are challenged with reducing the overall cost of doing so,
manufacturing a seemingly diametrically opposed set of objectives. Though truly challenging,
these objectives are not unique to any particular enterprise, but rather critically identifiable to the
ongoing health of the very business itself.
Cisco continues in its efforts to provide additional advanced technologies and products to answer
the call of enterprises seeking to achieve new ways of doing business. The Cisco AXP service
module is a specific product that has the unique ability to consolidate application services into the
network, be the catalyst for new and enhanced business process deployments, and lower an
enterprise’s overall TCO. These things happen while improving application performance, reliability,
manageability, and security through tight integration with the Cisco network.
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