Cisco WAAS

Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
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.

Your Network Is a Platform
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 accomplish these key IT objectives:

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

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