Cisco announced the launch of its Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS) appliances the Cisco family of WAN (wide area network)
optimization solutions.
The new solutions are expected to help its customers
deliver more Web-based software applications and rich media content across
networks at scale and with high quality to any user and device.
The new Cisco WAAS
appliances help customers improve application performance for bandwidth-heavy
applications such as virtual desktops, cloud services, video and mobile devices
at branch locations.
The new appliances also help organizations substantially
improve the user experience across their entire network infrastructure by
providing up to five times the bandwidth and supporting up to three times the
users than the previous generation.
The new Cisco WAAS appliances deliver the scale and
simplified deployment to maintain user experience through these network-wide
transitions. For rich media traffic such as video and virtualized desktops, the
new WAAS solutions will improve throughput and performance by 2 to 3 times
relative to current generation WAN optimization solutions,” said Dave
Frampton, vice president and general manager, Application Delivery Business
Unit, Cisco.
A WAAS appliance can also reduce the time it takes to
download a typical PowerPoint presentation to any tablet of any user in any
branch office from 30 seconds to only one second, and also has the ability to
simultaneously stream 400 high-definition videos to 150,000 employee devices.
These second-generation WAN optimization solutions
improve IT efficiency and cut total cost of ownership by lowering an
organization’s bandwidth usage and reducing the amount of hardware previously
required by 66 percent.
The new Cisco WAAS appliances support both branch and
data center deployments: new Cisco 294, 594, and 694 appliances enable branch
offices to deploy up to eight virtual services such as video, virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) and Windows on WAAS, with five times the throughput.
These new Cisco appliances along with the
router-integrated, on-demand WAAS on the Cisco Integrated Services Router
Generation 2 provide organizations with the most comprehensive WAN Optimization
portfolio in the industry.
The ISR G2 family of routers provides a borderless
workspace experience through service virtualization, video-ready capabilities,
and operational excellence.
Cisco recently announced
the Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a set of video
distribution products that work together to address IT leaders’ growing
challenge of delivering the highest-quality live and on-demand video content to
end users anywhere, anytime.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
