topic Re: Cisco WAAS in Application Networking

Cisco WAAS

parthibanr — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:54:54 GMT

How the WAN acceleration is done by the WAAS?.. I meant what is the technlogy used for doing this.

Re: Cisco WAAS

dstolt — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:03 GMT

Without writing a book, WAAS uses TCP optimization and compression for all TCP traffic that is redirected to it. Also, on top of the basic TCP optimizations, there are also Layer 7 Application Optimization(AO). Currently in 4.0 there is a CIFS AO, but in future releases (4.1.x), there will be more AOs for things like HTTP, NFS, RTSP, etc.

Check out the following for a little more detail...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6870/index.html

Hope that helps,

Dan

Re: Cisco WAAS

pmccubbin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:06:08 GMT

Hi Dan,

You might have mentioned the book which recently Zach wrote. 😉

Here it is:

Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services (Networking Technology) (Hardcover)

by Zach Seils (Author), Joel Christner (Author).

Parthiban, I own it and recommend it to everyone who is tasked with deploying Cisco WAAS.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Paul

Re: Cisco WAAS

dstolt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:01:10 GMT

Yep,

It's the best resource you can read on the subject from the formost expert on WAAS....anywhere.

Dan