-- Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release 4.1,
offering virtualized application hosting services, greater application
acceleration and video delivery for the branch office;
-- Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) software release 3.1 for the
ACE 4710 application switch, offering up to 4 gigabits per second (Gbps)
of throughput and up to 2 Gbps of compression capability, and multimedia
readiness on a virtualized platform;
-- Cisco VFrame Data Center software release 1.2, offering end-to-end
infrastructure provisioning with Cisco ACE and VMware ESX;
-- New Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services to better
support customers with data center deployments.
Cisco Application Delivery Networks: Providing Virtualization and
Application Fluency
Cisco's application delivery networking portfolio optimizes application
availability, performance and security over the wide-area network (Cisco
WAAS) and within the data center (Cisco ACE). Cisco is announcing new
capabilities in the application networking portfolio that expand
application fluency and performance, as well as delivering end-to-end
application delivery network support for real-time applications such as IP
telephony, video and multimedia from the data center to the branch office.
Cisco WAAS software release 4.1 supports network-embedded virtualization,
enabling customers to deploy platforms such as Microsoft Windows Server
2008 locally at the branch office on a Cisco WAAS appliance, reducing
server hardware requirements. In addition, version 4.1 simplifies customer
deployments and provides application-specific acceleration features for
Microsoft Exchange (MAPI), web applications (HTTP), live and on-demand
video (RTSP), centralized printing (Windows Print), and Unix/Linux file
sharing (NFS).
Cisco ACE software release 3.1 increases the capacity of the ACE 4710
application switch up to 4 Gbps of throughput with up to 2Gbps of
compression capability, doubling the device's virtualized performance in a
compact form factor. Software license-based scalability from 1 Gbps to 4
Gbps dramatically extends customer investment protection, and provides
customers with a highly scalable, yet low entry-point application switching
solution. Cisco has also enhanced the Cisco ACE appliance 4710 and module
to leverage its virtualized load balancing and security services across
unified communications, collaborative technologies, and video applications
through its increased ability to understand the popular Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).
Pacer International, a leading freight transportation provider
headquartered in Concord, Calif., has deployed Cisco WAAS throughout its
network. "Pacer has hundreds of mobile users, agents and agencies that
access our business systems daily," says Jim Ward, CIO, Pacer
International. "Many of these users access Pacer systems over low-quality
DSL, broadband lines and wireless cards that degrade application
performance. Cisco WAAS WAN optimization allows our users to gain the
benefits of an optimized WAN without incurring extra infrastructure costs.
We also definitely see a need for the high-quality video delivery
capabilities integrated into this new version of Cisco WAAS, which will
help collaboration efforts at our company."
New Version of Cisco VFrame for Improved Virtualized Data Center
Provisioning
Cisco VFrame is a network-driven service orchestration provisioning
platform. IT managers can optimize virtual, compute, storage and network
resources with near real-time deployment agility, based on the provisioning
intelligence within VFrame. VFrame 1.2 offers integration with Cisco ACE
and VMware ESX, including the ability to virtualize servers to ACE virtual
devices, and/or to select a server out of a utility pool, and configure it
end-to-end with ESX. Cisco VFrame provisions resources intelligently, with
policies and an advanced rules-checking engine, and securely, with a
multi-layer, roles-based access-control interface.
Improved Cisco Data Center 3.0 Services
Cisco announced both new and enhanced programs to help customers
successfully deploy and manage advanced data centers, including the new
Data Center Efficiency Assurance Program, extensions to the Data Center
Assurance Program (DCAP) 4.0, and DCAP for Applications.
For advanced data center technology deployments, Cisco is offering the
Efficiency Assurance Program (EAP), a web-based tool that helps customers
better analyze data center power use and establishes energy benchmarks
across facilities and infrastructure. Additionally, Cisco's Data Center
Efficiency Services help customers identify the appropriate power and
cooling infrastructure to support a highly reliable network, while
identifying steps to make the infrastructure more accessible, efficient and
sustainable.
Cisco has updated its Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP) to include
large-scale data center validation, design and implementation guides,
including an enhanced Service Provider section containing an updated
baseline architecture and new overlays for video streaming and mobility
services. DCAP also now supports Cisco ACE and Cisco MDS blade server
fabric switches, and solutions including Oracle 11i E-Business Suite,
Microsoft Exchange 2003, Tibco Rendezvous and active-active disaster
recovery. Cisco has also extended its related DCAP for Applications
program for the Cisco Application Delivery Networks portfolio by offering
new tested and validated delivery solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite R12
and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.
Pricing and Availability
Cisco WAAS software release 4.1 is scheduled to be available for download
in Q3, CY08. WAAS Live Video Streaming and WAAS Virtualization are
separately licensed features with pricing starting at $2500 per device. The
other WAAS 4.1 features included in the WAAS Enterprise License are
available at no charge to Cisco WAAS Enterprise License customers with
Cisco SmartNet Software and Support with Upgrades (SASU) Contracts. Cisco
ACE software release 3.1 for the ACE Appliance is scheduled to be available
in Q3, CY08 and is offered at no charge for Cisco SmartNet customers; the
additional Cisco ACE Appliance 2Gbps to 4Gbps upgrade throughput license is
priced at $15,000. The Cisco ACE Appliance compression license is priced
at $20,000 for a 2Gbps compression license, $10,000 for a 500 Mbps to 2Gbps
compression upgrade license, and $5,000 for a 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps compression
upgrade license. Cisco VFrame Version 1.2 is schduled to be available on
both primary and secondary appliances with a base starter kit of $59,995
list; VFrame 1.2 will be available in Q3, CY08. Cisco EAP, DCAP 4.0 and
DCAP for Applications are currently available; for more information see: Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP) and DCAP for Applications program.
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