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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software

Introduction

 

WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

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Cisco WAAS in the Market

Cisco WAAS in the Market

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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.

Data Redundancy Elimination

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

Application-Specific Acceleration

  • Based on licensed protocols from application vendors
  • Validated with application vendors
  • Protocol-specific optimization techniques

Transport Flow Optimization

Enhanced WAN efficiency and handling of WAN problems improve throughput.


Cisco WAAS Release 4.1

Expanding WAN optimization to the branch IT services delivery platform provides:

  • Ease-of-deployment and streamlined management
  • Improved user experience with application-specific acceleration of:
    • Common Internet file system (CIFS)
    • Microsoft Outlook messaging API
    • HTTP applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint
    • Windows Print
    • UNIX Network File Services (NFS)
  • Acceleration of SSL encrypted traffic integrated into existing security trust models
  • Wide-scale delivery of live video
  • Flexible delivery of branch IT services using local hosting while minimizing device footprint

Featured Content

WAN Optimization for SaaS Applications

Learn how WAAS accelerates the delivery of software as a service (SaaS). (PDF - 1.2 MB)

Windows Server 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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