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Application Networking Solutions

Introduction

Secure, Optimized Application Delivery.

Business applications are critical to the operation, productivity, and profitability of all organizations. Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) solutions increase application performance, availability, and multilayer security, while simplifying your data center and branch infrastructure. This helps you lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve IT flexibility. Solution benefits include:

  • Performance: Ensures the best service to users in all network locations
  • Security: Protects critical applications, infrastructure, and data
  • Availability: Increases application availability
  • Simplification: Minimizes cost and complexity, reduces TCO

Cisco is working with key application vendors to jointly validate their applications over the Cisco network infrastructure. Together, the Cisco Data Center Assurance Program and our partners deliver tested and validated solutions for application and network integration.

Featured Products

Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance

Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance

  • Third-generation application control in an appliance form factor
  • Optimized application security, availability, and performance
  • High performance and virtualized architecture reduces TCO

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile

  • Maximizes productivity for small offices and individual users
  • Optimizes application delivery
  • Reduces latency, increases throughput from the user to the data center

A Blueprint for Application Acceleration

The primary challenges for most businesses today are to increase productivity, maximize profitability, and keep costs down. This requires business applications to be securely and rapidly delivered to any user, at any time, wherever they may be.

Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) transform your existing branch, data center, and campus networks into a business-enabling platform that can help your business:

  • Increase application performance and availability
  • Secure applications and data against the broadest range of attacks
  • Enable and migrate to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  • Enable branch office and data center consolidation
  • Accelerate new application deployment
  • Reduce total cost of ownership and enable better utilization of resources

Application Networking Solutions

The six attributes Cisco Application Networking Services deliver:

  • Application intelligence: Take control of applications and user experience.
  • Unified network services: Connect any person to any resource, with any device.
  • Integrated security: Build in protection for access, identity, and data.
  • Nonstop communications: Stay connected with a resilient infrastructure that enables business continuity.
  • Virtualization: Simplify your network and maximize resource utilization.
  • Operational manageability: Do more with less, deploy services faster, and automate routine tasks.

Cisco Application Networking Services

Accelerate, secure, and maximize availability of business critical applications

Cisco ACE Family

A switching network with the highest levels of integrated services and scalability forms the foundation of data center 3.0.

Wide Area Application Services Software (WAAS) Family

Optimize TCP-based application across the WAN while to deliver LAN-like application performance for centralized applications.

Optimizing Applications Throughout the Network

Through the expanded Data Center Assurance Program, Cisco has worked with key application vendors to jointly validate reference architectures and best practices of their applications over the Cisco network infrastructure. Validated Cisco products for such applications include the Application Control Engine (ACE) family, Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), and storage networking solutions.

Together, Cisco and our partners deliver tested and validated solutions for application and network integration.

Application Partners

Cisco has worked with application vendor partners to test and validate data center and WAN solutions. Click the partner links for solution and design guides for that partner:
Featured Content

DCAP for Apps

Overview of the Cisco Data Center Assurance Program and the testing Cisco is conducting to optimize your applications.
> View Video(Video - 5:31 mins)

Views on the Application Delivery Market

Forrester's Rob Whiteley and Cisco executives share insights on application delivery trends.
> View Video(Video - 11:05 mins)

The Cisco Application Delivery Network

Read about new Cisco innovations, and how to integrate application delivery in the end-to-end network. architecture.
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Data Center Services

Cisco provides services for all aspects of planning, deploying, operating, and optimizing Application Networking Services.
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More Resources
At-a-Glance (1)

Cisco DCAP for Applications (PDF - 86 KB)

Brochures (2)

Cisco and Microsoft Alliance Overview (PDF - 2 MB)

Cisco Data Center Network Architecture and Solutions Overview (PDF - 1 MB)

Q&A (1)

Cisco and Microsoft Customer FAQ (PDF - 190 KB)

Solution Overviews (1)

Cisco Application Networking for Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF - 590 KB)

White Papers (1)

Cisco and Microsoft White Paper (PDF - 230 KB)

Design Guides (7)

Cisco WAN and Application Optimization Solution Guide

Connected ImagingMedical Image Infrastructure 2.0 Application Design Guide (PDF - 2 MB)

DNS Load Balancing (PDF - 630 KB)

Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (PDF - 1 MB)

RADIUS Load Balancing (PDF - 590 KB)

Scaling Server Farms with the Content Switching Module (PDF - 710 KB)

Using the Service Control Engine and Deep Packet Inspection in the Data Center (PDF - 2 MB)

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