What Is WAAS?

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a solution designed to minimize unnecessary bandwidth usage and to accelerate application performance across the WAN. This product enables you to consolidate services in a data center to gain benefits of a centralized model while providing LAN-like performance to the remote users. The WAAS solution is available in different form factors, which scale from small offices to large data centers; this includes appliances, router modules, and software components. The WAAS is deployed at both ends of the WAN connection to perform application optimization using multiple advanced techniques. The WAAS can utilize the WAN bandwidth more efficiently; it fills the WAN pipe when needed and pushes ...

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