Available, Scalable, and Energy Efficient Application Delivery

The Cisco ACE Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers is a member of the Cisco family of Data Center 3.0 solutions, and a critical component of Cisco ACE product family. Cisco ACE module represents state of the art in next-generation application switches that helps:

• Maximize application availability
• Scale application performance
• Secure application delivery
• Facilitate data center consolidation and reduce costs through the use of fewer servers, load balancers, and data center firewalls

The Cisco ACE Module achieves these goals through a broad set of intelligent Layer 4 load balancing and Layer 7 content switching technologies integrated with leading acceleration and security capabilities. A key design element of the module is its ability to use virtualized architecture and role-based administration, which enable IT to provision and deliver a broad range of multiple applications from a single module, bringing increased scalability for to the data center.

To maximize application availability, the module uses best-in-class application-switching algorithms and highly available system software and hardware. It provides industry-leading scalability and throughput for managing application traffic, up to 16Gbps in a single module and 64Gbps with four modules in a single Catalyst 6500 switch chassis. This is upgradeable through software licenses or new module additions, thus providing IT with long-term investment protection and scalability.

The Cisco ACE Module greatly improves server efficiency through both highly flexible application traffic management and offloading CPU-intensive tasks such as SSL encryption/decryption processing and TCP session management.