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Cisco WAAS

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What is Cisco WAAS?

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a suite of products designed to optimize the performance of applications across a wide area network (WAN). WAAS aims to improve application response times and reduce bandwidth consumption by using techniques such as data compression, data deduplication, traffic shaping, and application-specific acceleration. It is commonly used by organizations with branch offices to enhance the user experience for applications accessed over the WAN, especially for latency-sensitive applications like file sharing, email, and web applications.

What other technologies are related to Cisco WAAS?

Cisco WAAS Competitor Technologies

Riverbed Steelhead is a direct competitor to Cisco WAAS, as it provides similar WAN optimization capabilities.
mentioned alongside Cisco WAAS in 17% (63) of relevant job posts
Riverbed is the company that makes Steelhead, a direct competitor to Cisco WAAS.
mentioned alongside Cisco WAAS in 3% (92) of relevant job posts

Cisco WAAS Complementary Technologies

VPNs provide secure connections over a network. WAAS can optimize traffic traversing a VPN tunnel, acting as a complement.
mentioned alongside Cisco WAAS in 0% (66) of relevant job posts

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