WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration

Peace Corps Saves Using WAN Optimization

Peace Corps Saves Using WAN Optimization

See how the Peace Corps saved $180,000 in its first year of using Cisco WAN Optimization solution. (6:39 min)

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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.

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

• Validated by application vendors with proven designs that lower risk
• Integrated into your network to simplify network operations and management
• Reduced ownership costs through smaller device footprints and ease of deployment