WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions are deployed by more than 5000 customers to accelerate applications over the WAN, consolidate branch infrastructure, and empower cloud computing. As a major component of both Cisco Borderless Networks and Data Center 3.0 solutions, Cisco WAAS:

• Helps to ensure branch and mobile user productivity by optimizing application performance
• Reduces costs by helping to enable centralization of IT resources and minimizing bandwidth expenses
• Increases agility with faster delivery of IT services and cloud architectures
• Enhances data protection for regulatory compliance

Cisco WAAS is integrated with Cisco routing and security products providing flexible deployment options with the lowest total cost of ownership.

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Cisco WAAS Differentiators

Broad Portfolio for Customer Choice

Cisco WAAS offers the most choices for WAN optimization.

Software-Based WAN Optimization

Cisco WAAS software on Cisco Integrated Services Router G2 provides on-demand WAN optimization. By decoupling software from underlying hardware, the Services Ready Engine (SRE) can deliver WAN optimization as an "on-demand" service to enhance business agility.

Cisco WAAS Mobile delivers WAN optimization for mobile or remote users or for public cloud computing environments that cannot support an appliance.

Full Appliance Portfolio

Cisco WAAS appliances support virtual blades in branches and deliver high scalability for large data center deployments, along with application acceleration, and bandwidth optimization across a range of deployment scenarios and price points.

Dedicated Modules

Network Modules are available for both first and second-generation Integrated Services Router

Validated Designs Accelerate Return on Investment

Cisco WAAS offers a proven end-to-end architectural approach with validated designs to lower cost of ownership and ease deployment challenges.

Cisco WAAS customers can take advantage of significant Advanced Services and Support resources to accelerate time to value for WAN optimization.

Open Architecture for Successful Deployments

Cisco WAAS native transparency helps to ensure comprehensive Network Services Integration (e.g. QoS, VoIP, and NBAR) while simultaneously enabling the integration of third party Application Performance Monitoring solutions to assess and monitor application performance. Together these help ensure successful WAN optimization deployments.