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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.
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WAAS Appliances
- Cisco WAAS appliances deliver comprehensive application, branch, and WAN optimization
- The broad WAAS appliance product line scales from small branches to large data centers
- Server Administrators can profile and use Cisco WAAS appliance virtual blades like industry-standard servers, backed by the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).
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WAAS Solutions for Integrated Services Routers
- Cisco WAAS can integrate physically with first- and second-generation Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR)
- The Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) Modules on the Cisco ISR G2 platform, which decouples software services from the underlying hardware, can deliver WAN optimization as an on-demand service as required by business objectives and IT budgets
- Dedicated modules are available for both first- and second-generation ISR
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WAAS Software
- Cisco WAAS software runs on a broad range of appliances, Cisco Services-Ready Engine modules that offer IT agility with on-demand WAN optimization, or dedicated modules for Cisco Integrated Services Routers. All solutions enjoy a unified management solution in Cisco WAAS Central Manager
- Native transparency helps to ensure comprehensive Network Services Integration (e.g. QoS, VoIP, and NBAR) with simultaneous integration of third party Application Performance Monitoring solutions to assess and monitor application performance. Together these help ensure successful WAN optimization deployments
- Cisco WAAS Software offers IT architects a confident migration to cloud computing solutions and XaaS architectures
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WAAS Mobile
- Offers application acceleration for home-based, mobile, and micro-branch users for whom an appliance may be impractical
- Provides a unique solution for accelerating public cloud computing applications
- Purpose-built for client desktop operating systems
- Delivers industry-leading performance with the broadest range of acceleration technologies
- Can be hosted on industry-standard servers, including Cisco UCS servers, for industry-leading return on investment
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All WAAS Products
Cisco WAAS software, appliances, modules and WAAS Mobile deliver the broadest WAN optimization portfolio in the industry.
Benefits
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions enhance IT user productivity, help reduce branch IT costs, increase IT agility, and deliver scalability and application performance for the distributed enterprise.
Boost IT User Productivity
Cisco WAAS helps to ensure branch and mobile IT user productivity by optimizing application performance over the WAN. Application performance can suffer as applications and data migrate from distributed to centralized. To ensure application performance Cisco WAAS technologies, delivered on appliances, router modules, and desktop software, mitigate WAN latency and loss and application protocol inefficiencies. For a wide range of accelerated applications, Cisco WAAS includes application vendor validations.
Reduce IT Cost
Cisco WAAS enables a balanced cost- and performance-optimized branch infrastructure. IT architects can:
- Reduce bandwidth consumption, which can immediately reduce recurring bandwidth costs or defer bandwidth upgrades
- Centralize both branch servers and storage into data centers while maintaining application performance
- Converge branch platforms with WAN optimization on Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs)
- VIrtualize branch servers on to Cisco WAAS appliance virtual blades
- Adopt cloud-computing infrastructure and services with confidence. WAAS innovations boost performance and security in cloud computing, including for example, Cisco WebEx acceleration in concert with Cisco ASR WebEx Node
Cisco WAAS offers industry-leading return-on-investment (PDF - 137KB) (ROI), including tools such as Cisco Validated Designs, which can shorten deployment time for popular applications coupled with Cisco solutions. Calculate your own return on investment.
Enhance IT Service Agility
Cisco WAAS delivers increased business agility by helping to enable application rollouts without the risk of degraded productivity or added complexity. Exceptional agility is available with WAN optimization on demand as business needs arise with the Cisco Services-Ready Engine (SRE) Modules on the Cisco ISR G2 platform.
Scalability and Performance for the Distributed Enterprise
By combining the Cisco Unified Computing System with Cisco WAAS, organizations can gain the benefits of data center consolidation and server virtualization and provide the power of applications across the WAN to remote locations worldwide. Read the white paper.
Learn More
Learn more about Cisco WAAS and its wide range of benefits with information from Cisco, 3rd-parties, and Internet communities.
At A Glance and Key White Papers
- Watch an overview of the challenges facing distributed IT infrastructure and the solution offered by WAAS
- Cisco WAAS At-a-Glance (PDF - 870 KB)
- Email Acceleration
- Web Application Acceleration - HTTP and HTTPS
- Technical Overview of WAAS 4.2
- Windows Server on WAAS
- Vendor-validated Application Acceleration solutions
- Independent Tests Show Superior WAAS Performance
Featured Case Study
WAAS Accelerates SharePoint for Monsanto
With rural customers, globally distributed research and development, and a need for real-time collaboration to speed time to market, Monsanto turns to Cisco WAAS.
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Architect the data center of the future today using industry leading technologies and best practices.
Learn MoreWAAS and UCS for Optimized Application Delivery
Cisco WAAS and UCS together offer scalability and high performance in the data center and over the WAN.
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