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Announcements today include:

· A new Cisco Data Center Assurance Program for Applications (DCAP for Applications)
that tests and validates industry-leading enterprise software applications over Cisco
application delivery network infrastructure. For commentary on Cisco’s application
delivery network strategy from executives at Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.

· New ANS products and services, including the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE)
4710 Appliance, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile, Cisco ACE XML
Gateway Release 5.2, and Cisco Advanced Services for application delivery.

The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is an application delivery and optimization solution for
today’s data centers. The appliance helps ensure business continuity by enhancing application
availability, improves end user productivity by accelerating applications, and reduces operating
costs by helping to minimize data center power and cooling needs, contributing to “green” data
center initiatives. Like the ACE Module, the ACE 4710 Appliance uses a unique, virtualized
architecture to isolate application and server farms, as well as speed application deployments.

The Cisco ACE 4710 addresses smaller- and medium-scale enterprise deployments, supporting up
to 2 gigabits per second (Gbps) of application traffic and 50 virtual devices in a single appliance.

Featuring Cisco-patented FlashForward acceleration technology, the product helps eliminate the
network delays associated with embedded Web objects such as JavaScript files – resulting in up to
500 percent faster Web application performance.

In addition to introducing the ACE 4710 Appliance, Cisco has upgraded the software for its ACE
XML Gateway, which processes Extensible Markup Language (XML) transactions on the network
for service-oriented architectures and applications, including Web 2.0 services.

Cisco WAAS Mobile extends the capabilities of the award-winning Cisco WAAS product family by
providing application acceleration of any Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-based application
operating in a wide-area network (WAN) environment to mobile and remote workers. Consisting of
client desktop and server-based software, the solution can be easily installed without reconfiguring
existing desktop clients, file or application servers, or network infrastructure, and preserves existing
network security policies.

Dallas, Texas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), a premier provider of global IT and
business process outsourcing, has deployed both Cisco WAAS and ACE internally and also deploys
Cisco ANS products at client sites, such as Scott’s Miracle-Gro.

To complete its application delivery networking offering, Cisco also is launching a new Application
Profiling Service, a custom design and support service that helps customers profile their
applications’ performance, security and availability status, and recommends application delivery
technologies to achieve resulting IT and business goals.

– Price and Availability:

The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is currently shipping with a promotional starting price of US
$15,995. Cisco WAAS Mobile is currently shipping with a price of US $5,000 for the server
software and $8,750 for a 25-concurrent-user license; larger concurrent user licenses are also
available. The Cisco Cisco ACE XML Gateway Release 5.2 is currently shipping and available at
no charge for Cisco SmartNet customers. The Cisco Application Profiling Service is also available
now.
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