Available, Scalable, and Energy Efficient Application Delivery

The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers is a next-generation load-balancing and application-delivery solution. A member of the Cisco family of Data Center 3.0 solutions, the module:

• Helps ensure business continuity by increasing application availability
• Improves business productivity by accelerating application and server performance
• Reduces data center power, space, and cooling needs through a virtualized architecture
• Helps lower operational costs associated with application provisioning and scaling

It achieves these goals through intelligent load-balancing and content-switching technologies integrated with acceleration and security capabilities. A virtualized architecture and role-based administration help you provision and deliver multiple applications from a single module to increase data center scalability.

Improve Application and Server Efficiency

To increase application availability, the module uses best-in-class application-switching algorithms and highly available system software and hardware. You can manage up to16 Gbps of application traffic in a single module, and up to 64 Gbps with four modules, in a single Catalyst 6500 Series Switch chassis.

Flexible application traffic management, and offloading of CPU-intensive tasks such as SSL encryption and decryption processing and TCP session management, improve server efficiency. For long-term investment protection and scalability, you can upgrade your software license to add modules.