Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a comprehensive WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications over the WAN, delivers video to the branch office, and provides local hosting of branch-office IT services. Cisco WAAS allows IT departments to centralize applications and storage in the data center while maintaining LAN-like application performance, and provides locally hosted IT services while reducing the branch-office device footprint.

Cisco WAAS allows organizations to accomplish these primary IT objectives:

* Application acceleration: Improve productivity of remote employees
* IT consolidation and WAN optimization: Minimize branch IT costs
* Branch IT agility: Respond rapidly to changing business needs
* Simplified data protection: Ease compliance and business continuity

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