Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Guia De Informação
Q&A
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Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Application
Switches
Switches
Q.
What is the Cisco
®
ACE Application Control Engine family of products?
A.
The Cisco ACE family, a comprehensive application delivery solution, is a part of the Cisco
portfolio of Data Center 3.0 solutions.
The Cisco ACE family includes highly scalable application switching modules for Cisco
Catalyst
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6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers. The Cisco ACE modules
consolidate a broad range of services in one device.
Cisco ACE application switch technology is now also available in a convenient appliance form
factor for those deployments requiring a standalone platform from a Cisco Catalyst 6500
Series switch. The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance uses the full range of Cisco application delivery
technology, including Layer 4 and 7 content switching, extensive application security, and
server offload for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and TCP processing, as well as an expanded
set of application acceleration capabilities. Used to increase the performance of data center-
based web applications, the Cisco ACE 4710 uses asymmetric compression, FlashForward,
and other patented techniques to reduce the volume of transferred data and improve
response times to end users, thus providing a better overall end-user experience.
The Cisco ACE family also includes the Cisco ACE XML Gateway. This appliance extends the
core Cisco ACE function set to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and web services,
including security, scalability, and acceleration.
To help ensure data center availability, the Cisco ACE application delivery solution is
integrated with the Cisco market-leading data center availability system, Cisco ACE Global
Site Selector (GSS), which provides intelligent failover between data centers to help ensure
business continuity and provide full Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) support, as well as protection from DNS-based distributed-
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Q.
What is the Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance?
A.
The Cisco ACE 4710, a part of the Cisco portfolio of Data Center 3.0 solutions and a crucial
component of the Cisco ACE product family, is a powerful new application delivery and
optimization solution for today’s data centers. The Cisco ACE 4710 helps ensure business
continuity by enhancing application availability, improves business productivity by accelerating
applications, and lowers operating costs by minimizing data center power and cooling needs.
Q.
What customer challenges do Cisco ACE application switches solve?
A.
The Cisco ACE application switches—the Cisco ACE Module and Cisco ACE 4710
Appliance—address the broad set of challenges involved in managing the deployment and
delivery of applications from the data center to local and remote users:
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Support for data center consolidation by reducing the required number of servers and load
balancers and the power and cooling requirements