To address challenges associated with today's mission critical enterprise application deployments, Cisco offers an enterprise network architecture for the ANS WebLogic solution with best practices and implementation guidance that optimizes application availability, performance, and security and lowers application ownership costs.

Featuring the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product families, collectively known as Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS), that provide data center, branch, and remote end user application optimization services, the solution addresses the following challenges for ANS WebLogic deployments:

• Recovery time and point objectives for business continuity
• End user performance over limited Wide Area Network (WAN) connections
• Security for service-oriented application architectures (SOA)
• Reduced capital and operational costs

The purpose of this document is to describe the ANS WebLogic Solution enterprise network architecture and deployment best practices and guidance.