Accelerate Applications, Optimize Your WAN

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization solution for the branch office that improves the performance of any TCP-based application operating in a WAN environment. With Cisco WAAS, IT organizations can accomplish three IT objectives:

• Optimize application performance for remote users accessing centralized data center resources
• Improve agility and availability by hosting critical services locally, while provisioning them centrally
• Minimize costs through branch equipment consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization, and simplified data protection for regulatory compliance

Cisco WAAS Unique Benefits

Unlike traditional WAN optimization products, along with powerful business and technical benefits, Cisco WAAS offers several unique benefits, including:

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): WAAS Reduces operating costs by minimizing the number of branch office devices, reducing support costs, and simplifying management.
• Ease of operation through network transparency: Ensures ease of operations by preserving investment in QoS, security, networking, and end-to-end application performance management.
• Reliable deployment with enterprise applications: Proper intellectual property rights licensing, end-to-end design validation, and joint escalation support from application vendor community ensures best performance and interoperability.
• Better VoIP quality: WAAS integration with Cisco IOS-based QoS ensures reliable prioritization, bandwidth allocation, protection and control of latency sensitive voice traffic.
• Maintains security of accelerated traffic: Industry's first PCI 1.1 compliant WAN optimization solution that accelerates application delivery without compromising end-to-end security.

New and Enhanced Products

• Cisco WAAS Mobile

Related Products

• Cisco Wide Area Application Engine Series Appliances