Improve Application Performance at the Branch

When applications originally written for high-speed LANs travel across lower-speed, latency-prone WANs, performance often degrades. Cisco offers a systems approach and multiple tools designed to improve application performance over the WAN.

Components of the system to improve application performance include:

Monitoring Tools: Provide essential information to optimize networks and applications

Classification Tools: Prioritize different applications across the limited WAN bandwidth and ensure application requirements are met

Optimization Tools: Improve the network application experience at the branch, and make better use of limited network resources

WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

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Monitoring Tools

Network Analysis Module: Identifies which network applications are running on your network and analyzes their performance to facilitate problem resolution.
NetFlow: Provides valuable information about network users and applications, peak usage times, and traffic routing

Classification Tools

Network-Based Application Recognition Performance Analysis: An intelligent classification engine in Cisco IOS Software that can recognize a wide variety of applications
Cisco IOS Tools for WAN Optimization and Performance: A set of tools and techniques that work together to improve the performance, security, and delivery of applications across the network

Optimization Tools

Wide Area Application Services: Accelerates applications over the WAN
Network Capacity Expansion Module: Expands capacity of WANs at remote and mobile sites
Performance Routing: Selects the best path for each application based on advanced criteria such as accessibility, delay, loss, jitter, and Mean Opinion Score

Rapidly Deliver Applications to Branches

Learn how to optimize your WAN and accelerate application delivery to branch networks. (Registration required.)

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Cisco Network Analysis Module

Powerful traffic-monitoring solutions combine embedded data collection and analysis with a remotely accessible management console.

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Application Performance

Introduction

Improve Application Performance at the Branch

WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

Monitoring Tools

Classification Tools

Optimization Tools

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Rapidly Deliver Applications to Branches

Cisco Network Analysis Module

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