Cisco Wide Area Application Services is a powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that optimizes the performance of any TCP-based application operating over a Wide Area Network (WAN) environment. This allows IT organisations to consolidate costly branch office servers and storage into centrally-managed data centres, and to deploy new applications directly from a data center, while still offering LAN-like application performance for any employee regardless of location.

Cisco WAAS allows organizations to accomplish three primary IT objectives:

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		Deliver centralized applications with LAN-like speed to any employee regardless of location, while preserving end to end visibility and security
		Consolidate costly branch office servers, storage and backup infrastructure into data centers, while optimizing WAN bandwidth usage.
		Maximize regulatory compliance and data protection through consolidation of branch storage, as well as acceleration of branch backup applications
In comparison to other WAN optimization products, the Cisco WAAS solution offers these unique  benefits:
		Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
		Ease of operation through network transparency
		Reliable deployment with enterprise applications
		Better voice-over-IP (VoIP) quality
		Preserved security of accelerated traffic