WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration
Cisco WAAS in the Market
Learn about the recent market adoption and success of Cisco Wide Area Application Services. (8:13 min)
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Cisco WAAS in the Market
Learn about the recent market adoption and success of Cisco Wide Area Application Services. (8:13 min)
Data redundancy elimination (DRE)
- Bi-directional signature-based data compression
- Protocol-agnostics
- Persistent Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression providing up to 5:1 extra compression
Application-specific acceleration
- Based on licensed protocols from application vendors
- Validated with application vendors
- Protocol-specific optimization techniques such as read-ahead, operation batching, multiplexing, and safe caching
Transport flow optimization (TFO)
- Improved WAN efficiency and handling of WAN conditions, including packet loss, congestion, and recovery
Cisco WAAS Release 4.1
- Ease-of-deployment for initial use, and streamlined management for ongoing operations
- Improved user experience with new application-specific acceleration of:
- Common Internet file system (CIFS)
- Microsoft Outlook messaging API (MAPI)
- HTTP applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint
- Windows Print
- Unix Network File Services (NFS)
- Acceleration of SSL encrypted traffic integrates into existing security trust models
- Wide-scale delivery of live video by eliminating bandwidth upgrades and complex configuration
- Flexible delivery of branch IT services using local hosting while minimizing device footprint
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