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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software

Introduction

 

WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

Cisco WAAS in the Market

Learn about the recent market adoption and success of Cisco Wide Area Application Services. (8:13 min)

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Cisco WAAS in the Market

Learn about the recent market adoption and success of Cisco Wide Area Application Services. (8:13 min)

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a comprehensive WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications, reduces branch infrastructure costs, improves IT agility, and simplifies remote data protection. Cisco WAAS offers the most advanced WAN optimization technology including:

Data redundancy elimination (DRE)

WAN bandwidth optimization and improved application performance for all TCP applications.

  • Bi-directional signature-based data compression
  • Protocol-agnostics
  • Persistent Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression providing up to 5:1 extra compression

Application-specific acceleration

Improved layer 7 application performance.

  • Based on licensed protocols from application vendors
  • Validated with application vendors
  • Protocol-specific optimization techniques such as read-ahead, operation batching, multiplexing, and safe caching

Transport flow optimization (TFO)

Improved wide area network throughput.

  • Improved WAN efficiency and handling of WAN conditions, including packet loss, congestion, and recovery

Cisco WAAS Release 4.1

With Cisco WAAS v4.1 release, WAAS has expanded its role of WAN optimization to the branch IT services delivery platform, providing these new benefits:

  • Ease-of-deployment for initial use, and streamlined management for ongoing operations
  • Improved user experience with new application-specific acceleration of:
    • Common Internet file system (CIFS)
    • Microsoft Outlook messaging API (MAPI)
    • HTTP applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint
    • Windows Print
    • Unix Network File Services (NFS)
  • Acceleration of SSL encrypted traffic integrates into existing security trust models
  • Wide-scale delivery of live video by eliminating bandwidth upgrades and complex configuration
  • Flexible delivery of branch IT services using local hosting while minimizing device footprint

Featured Content

Windows on WAAS

See how Microsoft and Cisco optimize branch IT services delivery.

Integrated Application Performance Management

Learn more about Cisco WAAS and NetQoS integration (PDF - 1.2 MB)

WAAS Framework

See WAAS architecture for comprehensive WAN optimization.

 

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