Optimize Application Delivery

Improve application performance, availability, and security, while simplifying your data center and branch infrastructure. Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS) solutions can help you lower your 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 to users throughout your network
Simplification: Minimizes cost and complexity

Cisco works with key application vendors to 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.

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.

Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module
Get breakthrough application performance, scalability, availability, and security, and simplify the application infrastructure.
Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance
Get breakthrough application performance, scalability, availability, and security in an appliance form factor.
Cisco ACE Global Site Selector
This is a crucial component for application-aware active/active data center architectures using global site selection services.
Cisco ACE XML Gateway
Efficiently deploy secure, reliable, and accelerated Web service environments.

Wide Area Application Services Software (WAAS) Family

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

Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software (WAAS)
Consolidate costly branch office servers and storage into centrally managed data centers while offering LAN-like application performance.
Windows Server on WAAS
Integrating Windows Server 2008 on the Cisco WAAS platform, provides flexibility to deploy applications and infrastructure across branch and data center locations.
Cisco Wide Area Application Services Mobile
Optimizes application performance to maximize productivity for mobile workers.
Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS)
Deploy highly scalable, reliable, and manageable video business applications across the WAN.

Optimize Applications Throughout Your Network

Through the expanded Data Center Assurance Program, Cisco works with key application vendors to 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 works with the following application vendor partners to test and validate data center and WAN solutions. Click the partner links for solution and design guides:

Windows Server on WAAS Announcement Video

Cisco and Microsoft unveil joint offering, customers discuss benefits of new branch IT architecture, partners and analyst confirm value.
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DCAP for Apps

Overview of the Cisco Data Center Assurance Program and the testing Cisco is conducting to optimize your applications.
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Views on the Application Delivery Market

Forrester's Rob Whiteley and Cisco executives share insights on application delivery trends.
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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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