WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a comprehensive WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications over the WAN, delivers video to the branch office, and provides local hosting of branch-office IT services. Cisco WAAS allows IT departments to centralize applications and storage in the data center while maintaining LAN-like application performance, and provides locally hosted IT services while reducing the branch-office device footprint.

Cisco WAAS helps organizations to accomplish these primary IT objectives:

• Application acceleration: Improve productivity of remote employees
• IT consolidation and WAN optimization: Minimize branch IT costs
• Branch IT agility: Respond rapidly to changing business needs
• Simplified data protection: Ease compliance and business continuity

See how customers have improved ROI with Cisco WAAS.

Unlike other WAN optimization products, the Cisco WAAS solution offers the following unique advantages:

• Validated by application vendors with proven designs that lower risks
• Integrated into your network to ease network operations and management
• Minimizes your ownership costs by reducing device footprints and complexity

Learn how to install Cisco WAAS in 15 minutes (Video - 16:10 min)