Wide area application services

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is technology developed by Cisco Systems that optimizes the performance of any Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-based application operating in a wide area network (WAN) environment while preserving and strengthening branch security. == Overview == WAAS combines WAN optimization, acceleration of TCP-based applications, and Cisco's Wide Area File Services (WAFS) in a single appliance or blade.

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