Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Guía De Información

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What are the core features of the Cisco ACE application switches?

The Cisco ACE family of products supports the following features:

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Broad set of proven load-balancing and content-switching technologies, coupled with high

availability

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Leading-edge application acceleration

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Best-in-class security capabilities

A crucial design element of the Cisco ACE family of products, and a differentiator between

Cisco and other solutions in the marketplace, is the capability to use a virtualized architecture

and role-based system administration to streamline and reduce the cost of operations involved

in rolling out, scaling, accelerating, and protecting application deployments, providing support

for more end users with fewer dedicated devices than competing solutions.

What are the advantages of these core Cisco ACE features?

The core Cisco ACE features provide these advantages:

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Server load balancing and content switching: To increase application availability, the

Cisco ACE product family uses best-in-class Layer 4 load-balancing and Layer 7 content-

switching algorithms coupled with highly available system software and hardware.

Specifically, Cisco ACE provides a state-of-the-art failover system with an extensive set of

application health probes that guarantees that traffic is forwarded to the most available

server. To help ensure data center availability, Cisco ACE is integrated with the Cisco

leading data center availability system: Cisco ACE GSS.

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Application acceleration: The Cisco ACE 4710 appliance is designed to accelerate the

application experience for all users, whether they are in the office or on the road. To enable

optimal application performance for remote and traveling users, Cisco ACE 4710 uses a

range of acceleration capabilities to improve application response times, reduce bandwidth,

and improve protocol efficiency. These technologies, including hardware-based

compression, delta encoding, and FlashForward, improve the performance and reduce

response times by minimizing latency and data transfers for any HTTP-based application,

and they do so for any internal employee or external end user. Cisco ACE 4710 customers

have achieved up to 500 percent improvement in response times by minimizing latency and

data transfers.

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Cisco ACE products greatly improve server efficiency through highly accurate

application traffic management and the offloading of CPU-intensive tasks such as SSL

encryption processing and TCP session management. Cisco ACE offloads SSL and TCP

processing from servers in large volumes, allowing IT to get more application processing

and use from each computing resource and thus reduce application infrastructure expense.

The Cisco ACE solution integrates SSL acceleration technology, which offloads the

encryption and decryption of SSL traffic from external devices (servers, appliances, etc.).

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Application protection: Cisco ACE is designed to serve as a last line of defense for

servers and applications in data centers. The Cisco ACE family of application switches

provides protection against application threats and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks with

features such as deep packet inspection, network and protocol security, and highly scalable

access control capabilities.