The ANS portfolio is designed to:

• Increase application performance
• Enhance application availability and security
• Help reduce the time and effort needed to deploy applications

> View Application Networking Services At-a-Glance (PDF - 217 KB)

Cisco ANS supports the application delivery network in both the data center and the branch office. These products help you use consolidated network server and storage without sacrificing performance or functionality.

Virtualizing these components can allow organizations to deploy applications faster, and even host applications locally in the branch.

Application Control Engine (ACE) Family

Optimize overall application availability, security, and performance by delivering application switching and load balancing.

Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

Accelerate delivery of centralized applications to dispersed users, helping consolidate resources, optimize the WAN, and locally host critical applications.