Wide Area Application Services

Optimize Your WAN

Cisco WAAS offers you more WAN optimization choices, including appliances with performance at scale, solutions for Integrated Services Routers, and cloud-ready virtual appliances. And, the first technical deliverable from the strong Cisco partnership with Citrix has appeared in Cisco WAAS, which is the first and only third-party networking product to gain the Citrix Ready certification. The latest Cisco WAAS WAVE appliances also received a great review in Network World.

The 2011 fourth quarter WAAS announcements generated a lot of positive buzz among the analysts that you trust for guidance. You may not have direct access to such reports, so here are links to some of them: a Forrester Research blog entry, an IDC Link (newsgram) from International Data Corporation (IDC) on the announcements, and a product brief from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

You can find other analyst reports here.

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    WAAS Appliances NEW

    • Deliver comprehensive WAN optimization from data centers to branches
    • Five times the performance with up to 2 Gbps optimized WAN throughput
    • Four times the virtual services density with support for up to 6 virtual blades
    • Three times the scale with 150,000 TCP Connections
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    WAAS Solutions for Integrated Services Routers

    • Deploy router-integrated, on-demand application acceleration and WAN optimization on Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs).
    • Choose WAAS Express or WAAS on Cisco Services-Ready Engine (SRE) Modules for ISR G2.
    • WAAS Express provides bandwidth optimization in an IOS-based software without increasing footprint.
    • WAAS on the SRE for ISR G2 provides the full WAAS software capabilities for ISR G2 customers.
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All WAAS Products

Cisco WAAS software, appliances, and modules deliver optimization with the broadest portfolio in the industry.

Benefits

Cisco's new WAN Optimization platforms dramatically scale the delivery of an optimal user experience to more users, applications, and devices across the entire organization. Cisco WAAS accelerates applications, optimizes bandwidth, provides local hosting of branch IT services, and enables a smooth evolution to cloud-based services.

The new Cisco WAVE Appliances: 294, 594, 694, 7541, 7571, and 8541 are 2nd generation WAN optimization solutions, delivering both a dramatic increase in performance, with the following:

• Five times the performance with up to 2Gbps optimized WAN throughput
• Four times the virtual services density with support for up to 6 virtual blades
• Three times the scale with 150,000 TCP Connections
• Substantially reduced solution footprint - third of previous footprint

Learn More

Learn more about Cisco WAAS and its wide range of benefits with information from Cisco, 3rd-parties, and Internet communities.