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Cisco Wide Area Virtualization Engine

Product Overview

The Cisco

Wide Area Virtualization Engine (WAVE) appliances extend the Cisco WAN optimization appliance

portfolio to provide the industry’s only branch-office appliance family that incorporates comprehensive WAN

optimization, embedded virtualization for local hosting, and branch-office video delivery. This solution allows IT

organizations to centralize applications and storage in the data center while maintaining LAN-like application

performance, and rapidly deliver local branch-office IT services while reducing the branch-office device footprint.

Cisco WAVE appliances are designed to enable local hosting of branch-office IT services using a network-

embedded virtualization architecture. This architecture maintains native performance for WAN optimization while

using the same hardware platform for additional hosted services.

The WAVE family supports a wide range of deployment scenarios with a low entry price point and features Microsoft-

validated virtualization. This approach is unlike that of other solutions, which reposition data center server

virtualization technology for branch-office environments.

Features and Benefits

Cisco WAVE appliances deployed with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software enables

organizations to accomplish these primary IT objectives:

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Improve employee productivity by enhancing the user experience for important business applications

delivered over the WAN.

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Reduce the cost of branch-office operations by centralizing IT resources in the data center and lowering the

cost of WAN bandwidth.

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Increase IT agility by reducing the time and resources required to deliver new IT services to the branch office.

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Simplify branch data protection for regulatory compliance purposes.

The Cisco WAVE platform supports Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.1. In addition to the benefits listed here, Cisco

WAAS Software 4.1 makes WAN optimization easy to deploy while preserving existing network services; it adds

application-specific acceleration, developed and validated in partnership with application vendors; it enables efficient

delivery of video to the branch office without expensive bandwidth upgrades; and it supports local hosting of branch-

office IT services on a single virtualized hardware platform such as Cisco WAVE. The first set of validated and

supported hosted services includes Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic

Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and printing as part of the Windows Server 2008 core services.

For more information about Cisco WAAS Software 4.1, please refer to the datasheet at

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/contnetw/ps5680/ps6870/data_sheet_c78-445372.html

Unlike other WAN optimization products, Cisco WAVE appliances with Cisco WAAS Software provide application-

specific acceleration validated by application vendors; network integration that preserves existing network services,

resulting in ease of operations; and the most cost-effective solution on the market.

For detailed information about Cisco WAAS, please visit

http://www.cisco.com/go/waas

Note:

Cisco WAE-674 Wide Area Application Engine is the only branch appliance from the Cisco WAE platform

that offers virtual blade capability for branch-office infrastructure services with Cisco WAAS Software 4.1. Cisco

WAE-674 specifications can be found in this data sheet