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Application acceleration and WAN optimization solutions such as Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) bridge the gap between infrastructure consolidation and performance to enable a high-performance consolidated infrastructure. This book aims to familiarize the reader with the concepts and fundamentals of sizing and deploying Cisco WAAS in his or her environment. It provides technical information on the product, deployment sizing guidelines, integration techniques, and configurations of major components and subsystems. The book begins with a technical examination of Cisco WAAS and its core capabilities. The following chapters cover: the Cisco Wide Area Application family; Planning, discovery and analysis; Network integration and interception; Branch office network integration; Data center network integration; System and device management; Configuring WAN optimization; Configuring application acceleration; and case studies. |