Data Center White Papers
Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Design Guide
Overview The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) portfolio of technologies and products give enterprise branches LAN-like access to centrally-hosted applications, servers, storage, and multimedia with LAN-like performance. WAAS provides application delivery, acceleration, WAN optimization, and local service solutions for an enterprise branch to optimize performance of any TCP-based application in a WAN or MAN environment. This paper provides guidelines and best practices when implementing WAAS in enterprise architectures. The paper gives an overview of WAAS technology and then explores how WAAS operates in data center architectures. Design considerations and complete tested topologies and configurations are provided.
| Publisher | Cisco Systems | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | June 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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