This document provides network design best practices to enhance an Oracle E-Business Suite 11i application environment across the WAN. It introduces key concepts and options regarding the application deployment and detailed designs strategies available to a data center leveraging Cisco application and networking technologies. | Application Networking Optimizing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i across the WAN This document provides network design best practices to enhance an Oracle E-Business Suite 11i application environment across the WAN. It introduces key concepts and options regarding the application deployment and detailed designs strategies available to a data center leveraging Cisco application and networking technologies. Contents Introduction 2 Scope 2 Enterprise Architecture 3 Enterprise Application Overview 3 Desktop Tier 4 Application Tier 5 Database Tier 6 Enterprise Network Architecture 6 Data Center Network Components 6 Branch Network Components 9 Technology Overview 10 Application Control Engine 11 Firewall Services Module 15 Wide Area Application Engine 15 Design and Implementation Details 17 Design Goals 17 Design Implementation 17 Branch Designs 17 1111 111 CISCO. Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose CA 95134-1706 USA 2007 Cisco Systems Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction ACE Routed Mode Design 20 Performance Observations 36 Application Configuration Details 40 Appendix A Configurations 40 ACE Configuration 40 ACE Admin Context 40 ACE Oracle11i Context 41 WAE Configuration 45 Appendix B References 46 Appendix C Glossary 46 Introduction Ever-increasing customer demands volatile market forces and global competition compel the modern enterprise to deliver greater goods and services to customers at a lower cost. The Oracle E-Business Suite is an extensive set of business applications developed to assist enterprises in addressing these challenges. The E-Business application framework is a flexible environment designed to protect extend and evolve business processes. The enterprise data center is an intricate system of computing power and storage resources that support enterprise business applications. Data centers are not simply a facility but a competitive edge that is strategic to achieving the real business objectives that these .
