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15-1
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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15
Configuring
Application

Acceleration

and
Optimization
Date:
3/

28/12
With
application

acceleration

and

optimization

features

on

ACE

appliances,

you

can

configure
application
delivery

and

application

acceleration

options

that

increase

productivity

and

efficiency.

The
application
acceleration

features

optimize

network

performance

and

improve

access

to

critical

business
information.
This

capability

accelerates

the

performance

of

Web

applications,

including

customer
relationship
management,

por

tals,

and

online

collaboration

by

up

to

10

times.
Note
Application
acceleration

performance

on

the

ACE

appliance

is

50

to

100

Mbps
throughput.

With

typical
page
sizes

and

browser

usage

patterns,

this

equates

to

roughly

1,000

concurrent

connections.

Subsequent
connections
bypass

the

application

acceleration

engine.

Thi

s

l

imitation

applies

only

to

t

raffic

t

hat

i

s
explicitly
configured

to

receive

application

acceleration

processing

(for

example,

FlashForward,

Delta
Optimization).
Traffic

that

is

not

configured

to

receive

application

acceleration

processing

is

not

subject
to
these

limitations.

Also,

because

the

ACE

HTTP

compression

is

implemented

separately

in

hardware,
it
is

not

subject

to

these

limitations.

For

example,

if

you

have

a

mix

of

application-accelerated

and
non-application-accelerated
traffic,

t

he

former

is

limited;

the

l

atter

is

not

.

If

you

have

50

Mbps

of
application-accelerated
traffic,

the

ACE

can

still

deliver

up

to

1.9

Gbps

throughput

for

the
non-application-accelerated
traffic.
Note
When
naming

ACE

objects

(such

as

a

real

server,

virtual

server,

parameter

map,

class

map,

health

probe,
and
so

on),

enter

an

alphanumeric

string

of

1

to

64

characters,

which

can

include

the

following

special
characters:
underscore

(_),

hyphen

(-),

dot

(.),

and

asterisk

(*)

.

Spaces

ar

e

not


al

lowed.


If
you

are

using

ANM

with

an

ACE

module

or

ACE

appliance

and

you

configure

a

named

object

at

the
ACE
CLI,

keep

in

mind

that

ANM

does

not

support

all

of

the

special

characters

that

the

ACE

CLI

allows
you
to

use

when

configuring

a

named

object.

If

you

use

special

characters

that

ANM

does

not

support,
you
may

not

be

able

to

import

or

manage

the

ACE

using

ANM.
This
chapter

includes

the

following

sections:

•
Optimization
Overview,

page
15-2

•
Optimization
Traffic

Policies

and

Typical

Configuration

Flow,
page
15-2

•
Configuring
an

HTTP

Optimization

Action

List,

page
15-3

•
Configuring
Optimization

Parameter

Maps,
page
15-6