IT departments need more control over the application infrastructure so they can more easily manage, secure, and improve application service across the extended enterprise. Some of the business trends that present challenges include:

• Enterprise and service provider data centers face increasing business pressures to improve the reliability and quality of applications while reducing costs
• Disparate departments deploy and manage applications
• Organizations deploy a variety of different point products to address the worst challenges
• Security and compliance issues place even tougher constraints on how IT can respond

The industry's only solution fully integrated with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series for ease of deployment and use, the Cisco Application Control Engine delivers scalability, availability, application acceleration, breakthrough application security, and a way to simplify the application infrastructure overall at a single point in the network.

The Cisco Application Control Engine provides:

Centralized control for IT over the deployment and management of application service while allowing individual groups to administer their own application instances: The capability to manage 250 virtual partitions, which incorporate Layer 2-7 services, within a single physical device plus role-based access control, workflow management, and rollback capability, help simplify management and reduce costs.

• Industry-leading application and device performance: 16-Gbps throughput and 345,000 sustained connection setups per second to handle large-scale operations plus unique WAN latency and bandwidth reduction capabilities help drive optimal end-user response times across the network
• Rich levels of application and network security: Includes bidirectional support for content inspection, SSL encryption/decryption, and transaction logging for application security forensics

Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module

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