More than a year ago, I published a post entitled Layer 7 Switching. The title was not intended to be literal (it was mostly wishful thinking about the future state of end-to-end QoS), but it appears that routers and switches are going to become increasingly application aware.

In a post at Network World, titled Cisco releases Application Visibility and Control on Routers, Jamey Heary states that “Layer 7 application visibility and control (AVC) seems like the hottest buzz in the industry right now.” More...