Hello, my name is Noam Syrkin and I’m a business development manager for the Cisco WAAS Product Line.
Cisco’s 2nd generation WAN Optimization platforms provide cost-effective, comprehensive, and cloud-ready WAN optimization
solutions accelerating critical enterprise applications including email, file, web, video, storage, cloud and VDI.
They enable organizations to scale the delivery of optimal user experience to any application, user and device; with higher
performance, 10 times the throughput, a time and a half the scalability, and twice the virtual services density for the same price. All
this while substantially reducing the solution footprint and simplifying IT deployment and troubleshooting.
The WAAS portfolio includes purpose-built appliances for the branch and data center; ISR-G2 integrated form factors – WAAS
Express in IOS and WAAS on the SRE (Service Ready Engine) Service Module; and virtualized WAAS – vWAAS. The entire
WAAS portfolio is managed by a single, centralized manager simplifying deployments and on-going operations.
First, let’s talk about the NEW, purpose-build appliances for the data center.
Cisco WAVE-8541 supports up to 150,000 optimized connections; WAVE-7571 supports up to 60,000 connections; and WAVE7541 supports up to 18,000 connections. Each of these appliances has 2 Gig-E ports on-board, and support for optional 4-port
GigE Fiber, 8-port GigE copper, or 2-port 10-Gig S-F-P+ I/O Modules.
These data center platforms also support the industry’s only Context Aware Data Redundancy Elimination or DRE. Context Aware
DRE enables the data center appliances to adapt their caching behavior based upon the specific characteristics of the application
providing superior throughput and end user experience. For instance, with Context Aware DRE, the WAAS appliances are
intelligent enough to ensure that VDI and Video streams do not cause cache eviction for transactional, business critical applications
such as ERP and Email.
Now, let’s talk about the branch appliances. Just like the data center devices, these are purpose-built to provide sufficient bandwidth
to future proof the branch for emerging rich media applications such as video and VDI, as well as provide “best in class” virtual blade
density in support of branch server consolidation. The Cisco WAVE-294 supports up to 400 optimized connections, 20 megabits per
second of optimized WAN bandwidth and 2 Virtual Blades; the WAVE-594 supports up to 1,300 connections, 100 Megs per second
of optimized WAN bandwidth and 4 Virtual Blades; and WAVE-694 supports up to 6,000 connections, 200 Megs per second of
optimized WAN bandwidth and 8 Virtual Blades.
In fact, customers are increasingly hosting services such as Cisco’s Enterprise Content Delivery System (eCDS) directly on the
branch appliances in addition to traditional services. By hosting eCDS for video directly on WAAS, customers can have a single
platform in the branch that optimizes application traffic as well as delivers business video for use cases like live streaming events;
pre-positioning of VODs; or digital signage.
In addition to the branch appliances, customers can run Cisco WAAS directly in their 2nd generation ISRs enabling them to optimize
application performance and reduce WAN bandwidth requirements without increasing their branch office footprint. Customers have
the choice of WAAS Express or WAAS on the SRE. WAAS on SRE allows customers to deploy full WAN optimization capabilities
including bandwidth and latency optimizations directly inside the ISR-G2. In addition, customers can enable WAAS Express in the
G2 routers, allowing them to reduce their bandwidth consumption via a single CLI command without needing additional hardware.
In closing, Cisco WAAS provides cost effective, comprehensive, cloud ready WAN optimization solutions to address the specific
needs and deployment footprints of small, medium and large organizations.
For more information, please visit us at cisco.com/go/waas.
Thanks for watching.