cisco ace

Cisco ACE

Cisco® ACE (Application Control Engine) the Virtual Data Center (AVDC) integrates primary data center components, with applications.

SKUDONET

SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.

Cisco ACE’s Strengths

•  Has large and loyal customer base and substantial load balancing solutions.
•  On the ACE module cisco pioneered virtualized load balancing features that are attractive, large-scale infrastructure load-balancing requirements.
•  Developed a “pay as you grow” licensing model to reduce the number of platforms to a minimum and to provide flexibility to its customer base.
•  A focus on bundled solutions will appeal to organizations that do not have sophisticated bundled requirements.

SKUDONET’s Strengths

• Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
• Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
• Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
• Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
• Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
• Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
• Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
• Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
• Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
• Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.

Cisco ACE’s Weaknesses

•  Cisco has demonstrated limited application knowledge compared with its competitors.
•  Next generation service architectures are not complete and not encompassed ADC functionality.
•  Decline in clients request concerning Cisco’s ADC solutions-reflected in continuing marketing decline.

SKUDONET’s Weaknesses

•  Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
•  Needs to develop a broader partnership network.