End of development of the Cisco ACE?

[Adelaziz Ben Aziza]

Dear all,

I read in many IT websites that Cisco has confirmed that it will end development of its Application Control Engine (ACE) load-balancer products and it will not develop further generations of its ACE.

By the way, is it a correct information? Does Cisco will continue to sell ACE products? what we can do with the existing ACE20 and ACE30 already installed in our Data Center and is there any clear roadmap for Cisco load-balancer products?

Ragards,

Abdelaziz                 

[Kanwaljeet Singh]

Hi Abdelaziz,

This was answered to another similar question at :

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2172040

At this current point in time, the ACE30 and ACE4710 will continue to be developed through A5(3.X) code as part of the planned lifecycle of those products.  Any of the other future products including vACE, RISE, Nexus based Modules, appliances, etc. currently have no ETA, nor has any lifecycle ever been defined as they are not released products.  There is also no official Cisco response at this point in time to the rumors of cancellation, holds, etc. despite the hinting of certain articles to "confirmed by Cisco resources" based comments. 

Your best avenue for information is to talk with your local Cisco sales representative or account manager.  They may have more specific information pertaining to questions at a per-product/per-scenario level. As well, they will have the ability to help you plan your future deployments and designs queries accordingly.

Regards,

Kanwal