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
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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 t