Cisco® WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) is a comprehensive WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications over the WAN, delivers video to branch offices and provides local hosting of IT services at branch offices.
Cisco WAAS makes it possible to centralize application servers and storage infrastructures inside the data center. In addition to reduced operation and management costs of your IT infrastructure, application response time is lowered while performances similar to a local area network are maintained.
Benefits
• Accelerated applications: Improves the productivity of remote employees
• IT consolidation and WAN optimization: Minimizes branch office IT costs
• Remote office IT agility: Responds quickly to changes in company needs
• Simplified data protection: Greater compliance and business continuity
Figure 1. Application Surfer Powered by Cisco WAAS
Application Surfer
Application Surfer is Wind's proposal for speeding up applications in data networks that helps ensure maximum speed and performance without impacting the network. With Application Surfer, applications reach their full potential.
The service is based on hardware and software technology that operates in conjunction with data networks, helping ensure optimized data transport by increasing application utilization rates by all personnel, including remote offices.
Service Technical Features
The service helps ensure application optimization without impacting the current infrastructure, either network or overall IT. Implementing Application Surfer increases the ease of usage of the applications and the productivity of workers.
Benefits
• Higher application and protocol speed
• Throughput optimization
• Bandwidth optimization
• Increased user productivity
• Optimization of backup connections
Services offered by Application Surfer
• Preliminary assessment by qualified personnel to design solutions that best fit customer needs
• Try & Buy to evaluate results obtained before implementing the service on the entire client network
• Periodic assessments to verify and evaluate the results obtained, along with detailed reports
