WAN Optimization

WAN Optimization

Drive an order of magnitude improvement out of your IT business that you already have.

Steelhead Appliance

Steelhead appliances provide a robust, easy to use WAN optimization capability to your branch offices and data centers. With Steelhead appliances, you can cut bandwidth usage by 60- 95%, accelerate applications by up to 100x, and enable DR operations within ever-shrinking recovery windows. Steelhead appliances also offer the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)

VMware as the Virtualization platform.
Have up to five different virtual machines at once.
Put RSP on most Steelhead appliance models.
Advanced network rules capability.
Run on any VMware virtual machine.

to virtualize edge servers onto the appliance and save even more for your business. The Central Management Console (CMC) and Interceptor appliance help to manage and scale Steelhead appliance deployments.

Steelhead Mobile
Steelhead Mobile provides order-of-magnitude performance gains to your mobile workers, temporary offices, and very small offices through market-leading WAN optimization capabilities. Steelhead Mobile is completely integrated with Steelhead appliances to make the most of your existing infrastructure.

Cascade
Cascade is a unique tool for network visibility and analysis. Cascade provides businesses with an application-level view of their networks and servers. Using network behavioral analysis, Cascade can trend typical behavior and proactively alert you to issues in your environment, assess the best places for WAN optimization investment, and assist in consolidation efforts. Deployed only in the data center, this probe-free solution is the cost effective way for IT to ensure investments are aligned with business priorities

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

Product Offerings

Cisco Application & Content Networking System (ACNS) Software.
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Appliances.
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Mobile.
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Network Module.

Visibility- UPM provides deep visibility into network activity, usage and performance, giving you the intelligence and knowledge you need to keep your applications operating at peek performance.
Control – UPM includes a broad set of management capabilities that allow you to maximize network resources and control network traffic without placing heavy handed restrictions on users.
Optimization – UPS lets you turn understanding into action by implementing policies and network changes that drive application performance, improve the user experience and optimize productivity.

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