Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module
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.
Featured Content
Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Overview 
See how the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module helps ensure application performance, scalability, speed, and security.
Miercom Application Delivery Switch Module Comparison (PDF - 360 KB) 
Read a 2007 lab testing report on the performance and features of leading data center switches.
Product Support Services
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Additional Resources
(All Cisco Services Modules At-a-Glance) Brochures
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Cisco Data Center Solutions for Application Networking Services
Miercom - Application Delivery Switch Module Comparison (PDF - 362 KB)
Miercom - Cisco ACE Testing Report (PDF - 357 KB)
(All Cisco Services Modules Bulletins)
New Cisco ACE Application Control Engine ACE30 Module Hardware and Cisco ACE Software Release A4(1.0)
(All Cisco Services Modules Data Sheets)
Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers
(All Cisco Services Modules End-of-Life and End-of-Sale Notices)
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Software Versions A2(1.x) and A2(2.x)
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Cisco Application Control Engine in the Virtual Data Center
Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) FAQ
Cisco Data Center Solutions for Application Networking Services
(All Cisco Services Modules Solution Overviews) White Papers
(All Cisco Services Modules White Papers)
Automating Web Services Security and Acceleration with Cisco ACE Application Switch and Cisco ACE XML Gateway
Cisco Application Control Engine Monitoring Guide (PDF - 966 KB)
Integrating Application Delivery Solutions into Data Center Infrastructure
Migrating the Cisco Application Control Engine Tech Note (PDF - 899 KB)
Oracle 10g Application Server Suite Deployment with Cisco ACE, Version 1.0
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i with Cisco ACE SeriesDeployment Guide, Version 1.0
Server Load Balancing with SAP and Cisco ACE (PDF - 971 KB)
Ten Criteria for a Sound Investment in Application Switches
The Business Case for Cisco ACE Application Control Engine
Virtualized Application Delivery with Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE)