Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Software Version 2.1.0 Ships

I notice that Cisco has released 2.1.0 for the Cisco ACE today. A quick read of the release notes show lots of fun good­ies packed inside. These fea­tures are start­ing to ‘catch up’ with the F5.
I have installed the ANM 1.2 man­age­ment plat­form in the last couple of weeks and will post a review soon.
Release Notes here

Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) — Introduction and Comparison With F5

My new interest of the moment is the Cisco Application Control Engine or ACE mod­ule. I have just received a pair of them and plan­ning on start­ing the con­fig­ur­a­tion in the next couple of days. So per­haps some dis­cus­sion on the ACE is in order, and why I am con­sid­er­ing using both F5 LTM AND the Cisco ACE in this network.