Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) is a load-balancing and application delivery solution. ACE employs virtualisation allowing logical allocation of a single physical device, to which dedicated resources (throughput, transactions per second etc) can be allocated and charged for.
Key ACE benefits;
- Improve business continuity by improving application availability
- Improve business productivity by accelerating application and server performance
- Implement a customer charging model to only provision the amount of resources that have been specifically charged for
- Reduce data centre power, space and cooling requirements by using virtualisation
- Reduce resource (e.g. CPU,memory) and administrative (e.g. certificate management) requirements associated with highly resource-intensive applications such as SSL termination
ACE can scale from 0.5Gbps to 16Gbps, 5 to 250 virtual contexts and 1000 to 15000 SSL transactions per second. It is available as both a Catalyst 6500-based module, and a 1RU appliance.
As a Cisco reseller and specialist, SICL is fully experienced in deploying ACE and associated technologies.