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APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
Catalyst Module, AVS put Cisco back into fray with Juniper, others
CITING AN EPIDEMIC OF "FAT AND chatty" enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP, Siebel, and others, Cisco Systems on Monday unveiled a new product called ACE (Application Control Engine) and an update to its FineGround AVS (Application Velocity System), which the company claims will make applications run faster and more securely.
ACE - a multifunction blade for the Catalyst 6500 platform - uses logical partitioning to create as many as 250 virtual instances of Cisco's server load balancing, application delivery, and application firewall features. The news comes just ahead of next month's Interop trade show in Las Vegas, where Cisco and its competitors will be talking up their application...