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Conclusion

Cisco ACE next-generation application switches allow faster, more dynamic application

deployment and delivery. They make IT teams more productive and significantly reduce power,

cooling, and capital expenses. They also offer a full range of performance and security services.

Using Cisco ACE application switches, IT personnel can significantly curb what industry

researchers have deemed substantial productivity and revenue losses due to application

unavailability and performance degradation. Cisco ACE has been tested to significantly outperform

its competitors in balancing application requests among servers, in offloading CPU-intensive

communications and encryption functions from servers, and in applying acceleration functions

such as compression. In addition, the Cisco ACE industry-unique virtualized architecture saves on

capital expenditures and significantly reduces space, power, and cooling consumption. It

eliminates the ongoing expense of managing and maintaining multiple application switches,

because up to 250 virtual instances can be supported from a single piece of hardware.

Virtualization also improves time to service as deployments grow, because new application

instances can be cut and pasted from one partition to a new one in minutes.

Additional business and IT benefits are achieved through the unique role-based administration

capability that Cisco ACE offers. This capability allows various IT and departmental stakeholders

to work in parallel so that applications can be deployed, managed, and troubleshot quickly and

efficiently, yielding greater availability and IT staff productivity. In addition, integrated Layer 3 and 7

firewall capabilities serve as the last line of defense between the user population and the operating

system and application software.

For more information about Cisco ACE application switches, visit:

http://www.cisco.com/go/ACE

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