Техническая Спецификация для Cisco Cisco Application Performance Assurance Network Module
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Cisco AON Secure File Transfer Extension Module
Product Overview
Cisco
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Application-Oriented Networking (AON) products look simple—a small hardware blade on a
Catalyst
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switch, or a router, or a standalone appliance—but what these products provide is
extremely powerful.
Cisco AON is a processing platform that delivers complex communication services to your
business applications directly from within the network, offloading the task of developing and
managing these functions on the dozens or hundreds of application infrastructure servers and
application endpoints within your business and throughout your trading community.
The Cisco AON module or appliance sits on the communications path between applications
providing application infrastructure services for security, file transfer, messaging routing, event
management, optimization, and more, directly from within the network.
The Cisco AON Secure File Transfer Extension Module adds support to Cisco AON for business-
to-business (B2B) document exchange protocols such as AS2 by embedding them in the network
and facilitating access to the protocols directly from file systems, middleware systems, or Web
services. This innovative approach provides organizations with a simple, reliable, secure, cost-
effective, scalable, and manageable B2B file exchange infrastructure, helping enable them to
achieve significant cost reduction and increased deployment of the B2B trading networks.
Using this approach, organizations are finally able to achieve a level of B2B collaboration with their
customers, suppliers, and other third parties that has not been achievable using traditional server-
based B2B gateway technologies.
Features
The Cisco AON Secure File Transfer Extension Module provides a complete solution to support
secure B2B document exchange over the Internet and includes the following components:
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Cisco AON B2B Operations Management Console: Web-based application for trading
partner setup and management, including support for digital certificate management and
visibility on document exchanges between trading partners
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Cisco AON B2B Protocol Software: Drummond Group certified support for AS2 server and
client functionality directly on AON including:
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User authentication/access management
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File/document persistence to shared storage (SAN/NAS) through network protocols such
as NFS
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Ability to retrieve/store files to remote systems directly through messaging protocols such
as JMS
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Support for Cisco AON network module and appliance clustering and load balancing to
enable high availability and scalability