Cisco ACE 4710. Ethernet LAN data rates: 10,100,1000 Mbit/s. Connectivity technology: Wired. Power supply: 345 W, Power consumption (typical): 128 W. Form factor: 1U, Certification: FCC, CE, VCCI, BSMI BMC, C-tick, BSMI RPC, UL, cUL, CCC, MIC, BSMI, BSMI RPC. Dimensions (WxDxH): 430 x 509 x 42.4 mm

The Cisco ® ACE 4710 Application Control Engine belongs to the Cisco ACE family of application switches, used to increase the availability, security and consolidation of data center applications. The Cisco ACE product family consists of the Cisco ACE Modules for the Cisco Catalyst ® 6500 Series Switches and the Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Cisco ACE4710 Appliance, Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS) appliance and Cisco Application Networking Manager (ANM) management software.

The Cisco ACE4710 allows enterprises to accomplish these key IT objectives for application delivery

- Increase application availability and performance
- Secure the data center and applications
- Facilitate data center consolidation through the use of fewer servers, load balancers, and data center firewalls

The Cisco ACE4710 achieves these goals through a broad set of intelligent Layer 4 load-balancing and Layer 7 content-switching technologies that work with IPv4 and IPv6 traffic and are integrated with the latest virtualization and security capabilities. It supports translation between IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, supporting migration to IPv6 and allowing deployments in mixed networks.
The Cisco ACE4710 provides flexibility in managing application traffic, with scalability up to 4 Gbps in a one-rack-unit (1RU) form factor, upgradeable through software licenses, thus providing IT with long-term investment protection and scalability.
Additionally, through virtualization and role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities, the Cisco ACE4710 enables IT to provision and deliver a broad range of applications from a single Cisco ACE appliance, bringing increased scalability for application provisioning to the data center. This capability helps streamline and reduce the cost of operations involved in implementing, scaling, accelerating, and protecting applications.
The Cisco ACE4710 greatly improves server efficiency through highly flexible application traffic management and the offloading of CPU-intensive tasks such as SSL encryption and decryption processing, HTTP compression, and TCP session management.
The Cisco ACE platform is designed to serve as a last line of defense for servers and applications in data centers. An integrated firewall enables IT professionals to comprehensively secure high-value applications in the data center and facilitates data center consolidation.