Do these scenarios sound familiar?
- Are you planning to add additional bandwidth?
- Is your WAN affecting the productivity of your remote users?
- Would you like to enhance your network performance while decreasing IT infrastructure and management costs?
Sharing information across departments, business units and geographically dispersed locations is essential to a
growing business and both bandwidth and resource constraints limit the ability to easily share information.
Multiple locations, highly accessible data and bandwidth costs drive companies to investigate technologies to
optimize existing Wide Area Networks (WANs).
Benefits of WAN Optimization
Cisco has developed the industry’s most comprehensive and scalable branch-office networking solution – Cisco Wide Area
Application Services (WAAS). WAAS is a combination of hardware and software innovations, which help overcome barriers
of existing WAN bandwidth. The Cisco WAAS solution incorporates application acceleration and WAN optimization techniques,
including compression, redundancy elimination, transport optimizations, caching and content distribution to overcome the
WAN bandwidth, throughput and latency limitations associated with TCP/IP and application protocols. Unlike other WAN
optimization solutions, deployment and management are simplified through the transparent integration of WAAS with the
existing network, and helps enable a smooth integration with pre-established network security and WAN traffic policies.
The use of Cisco WAN optimization technology brings the following benefits:
- Optimized WAN connections for improved throughput by up to 500%
- Significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Use existing network security features without modification
- More efficient WAN utilization
- Cost avoidance (no bandwidth increases or costly infrastructure build out)
- Use existing network technologies without breaking existing Security or Quality of Service models
Kovarus & Cisco Deliver WAN Optimization Solutions
As a Cisco Advanced Technology Partner (ATP) for Network-Hosted Storage Applications, Kovarus assists customers by
assessing, architecting and deploying WAAS to enhance the usability of existing network infrastructure. Kovarus’
expertise in deploying WAN Optimization technology provides remote-office workers access to centralized servers,
storage and application infrastructure with LAN-like performance.