Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Guía De Información
Q&A
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Capability to speed up application deployment cycles and reduce interdependencies
between IT organizations and capability to reduce ongoing time required to manage
application infrastructure
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Ongoing need to increase application availability and uptime, while being able to
dynamically scale application resources as business requirements grow
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Capability to optimize performance of data center applications delivered to remote users
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Capability to improve application and overall data center security
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Capability to support more challenging customer service-level agreements (SLAs)
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What customer benefits do the Cisco ACE application switches offer?
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The Cisco ACE application switches allows enterprises to accomplish four primary IT
objectives:
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Increase application availability and scalability
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Accelerate performance of web-based applications
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Enable data center consolidation through fewer servers, load balancers, and firewalls
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Improve application and data center security
As a result, the Cisco ACE application switches provides specific benefits to network, IT, and
applications organizations:
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Reduced ongoing cost of application infrastructure and increased server efficiency
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Better end-user productivity through improved application availability and up to 500 percent
faster response times
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Up to 400 percent lower power and cooling expenses
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Up to 75 percent faster application deployment and build-out
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What service provider benefits do the Cisco ACE application switches offer?
A.
The Cisco ACE product family delivers the following benefits to service providers:
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Operational efficiencies and savings
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Scalability and integration with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series
Routers
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Incremental revenue streams through the capability to transparently offer more advanced
application hosting services and network security services, with the Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
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Capability to offer more competitive SLAs, with higher application and data center
availability objectives
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Competitive differentiation from other hosting service providers through leading-edge
application acceleration capabilities, best-in-class security features, and integration with the
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series FWSM and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series SSL Services
Module
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Better SLA support