Cisco is ending development of its ACE application delivery controller, exiting a market in which it has seen its share decline as F5 and Citrix have gained.
Cisco Systems, which for more than a year has been undergoing a transformation that includes shedding underperforming businesses, reportedly will no longer develop its ACE load-balancer technology, apparently ceding the market to rivals such as F5 Networks and Citrix Systems.
JMP Securities analyst Erik Suppiger wrote in a research note late last week that Cisco officials had been telling salespeople to stop promoting the Application Control Engine (ACE) 30 load-balancer module for new deployments, though the networking giant will continue to sell and service the product for existing customers.
"We believe Cisco's de-emphasis on selling the ACE for new deployments is a more recent development that reflects more of a shift away from the application delivery controller market," Suppiger wrote. "Cisco has been losing market share in the ADC market for several years, and we believe this will accelerate the company's share erosion."
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