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Device Manager Guide, Cisco ACE 4700 Series Application Control Engine Appliance

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Configuring Application Acceleration and

Optimization

This chapter describes how to configure application acceleration and optimization. With application

acceleration and optimization features, 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, portals,

and online collaboration by up to 10 times.

Note When you use the ACE CLI to configure named objects (such as a real server, virtual server, parameter

map, class map, health probe, and so on), consider that the Device Manager (DM) supports object names

with an alphanumeric string of 1 to 64 characters, which can include the following special characters:

underscore (_), hyphen (-), dot (.), and asterisk (*). Spaces are not allowed.

If you use the ACE CLI to configure a named object with special characters that the DM does not

support, you may not be able to configure the ACE using DM.

This section includes:

• Optimization Overview, page 13-2

• Optimization Traffic Policies and Typical Configuration Flow, page 13-2

• Configuring an HTTP Optimization Action List, page 13-3

• Configuring Optimization Parameter Maps, page 13-6

• Configuring Traffic Policies for HTTP Optimization, page 13-6

• Enabling HTTP Optimization Using Virtual Servers, page 13-9

• Configuring Global Application Acceleration and Optimization, page 13-9

Note Application acceleration performance on the ACE 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. This limitation applies only to traffic that is

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