The Cisco ACE
Module allows enterprises and service providers to accomplish four primary IT objectives for
application delivery:
– Maximize application availability
– Accelerate application performance
– Secure the data center and critical business applications
– Facilitate data center consolidation through the use of fewer servers, load balancers and
Firewalls.
Cisco ACE Module Software Release 2.1.0 highlights includes the following:
Available
– Dedicated multimedia support increases server capacity by 38%.
– Application switching based on actual application health.
– GSS can now leverage ACE intelligence for global load balancing.
Fast
– 10X increase in DNS balancing speed by re-using flow setups.
– Faster recovery of UDP resources improves Layer 4 performance.
– Intelligent re-use of session information delivers faster SSL.
Secure
– Stop DOS attacks by intelligent tagging of malicious traffic.
– Mitigate server resource attacks by fine tuning incoming traffic rates.
– Eliminate attacks against payload information through deep inspection.