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What is WAN Optimization?

Accelerate your applications and optimize quality of experience for your users.

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Accelerate your applications and optimize quality of experience for your users.

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Cisco
Year Founded
1984
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@Cisco
733,873 Twitter followers
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www.linkedin.com
97,323 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:CSCO
Phone
847-678-6600
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$49,301
Description

Cisco delivers intent-based networking across the branch, WAN, and cloud. We provide end-to-end security, automation, and analytics with award-winning services and support.

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Nilkanth P.
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Nilkanth P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Cisco Wan optimization solution"
It help to improve throughout and priority for most valuable application, bandwidth optimization, reduced latency
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Basudev K.
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"Amazing architectural solution."
The best thing about cisco is its security and the tools and techniques provided by cisco to deliver the service. And amazing server optimisation a...
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shoeb a.
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shoeb a.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Improves Network Performance"
It helps to overcome Latency and minimize packet loss and will also increase network throughput. Virtualization of the network is also done when WA...
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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

It helps to overcome Latency and minimize packet loss and will also increase network throughput. Virtualization of the network is also done when WAN optimizing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

It will take really high costs when setting up of WAN, there will also be security issues as it is a wide area network. And also there will be lot of maintanance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WAN Optimization:

Yes i would like to recommend this for other organizations which are having large environment. we can manage and setup the environment from one place and the configuration can be pushed to the device based on the profiles created. Also the managing the network issues would be easily done based on the automated process defined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

we can prioritize intended traffic on WAN itself and also we can diversify the routes. Also we can analyze the traffic based on sources and patterns. Issues will be autoresolved based on our configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

The best thing about cisco is its security and the tools and techniques provided by cisco to deliver the service. And amazing server optimisation and the added advantage is secure VPN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

Its complicated structure cannot be understood easily and require a trained workforce to handle it. And getting a CISCO WAN trained specialist is quite a tiresome job. So if cisco can provide any KT regarding every technology it will be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building services for end-user for their specific requirement, and building solutions for the organisation as well. And used to secure the network without compromising the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

It help to improve throughout and priority for most valuable application, bandwidth optimization, reduced latency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

Nothing as such as dislike about wan optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Latency reduction and improve throughput applications performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

Cisco makes quality systems and provides great results. Our network at the office is excellent, and rarely are there any connectivity issues. Highly recommended brand and products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

My only critique of Cisco is the subscription services they pair with some of their hardware, when it shouldn't be needed. Other than that they are top notch in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our network is organized, fast, and reliable. If we were to have the opposite it would cause us to have problems daily. Thankfully there are products that can smooth out things like wireless networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

Its performance and TCP Optimization Mechanisms it uses to enhance WAN traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

The solution sometimes is costly and complicated in some scenarios, hard to maintain and troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WAN Optimization:

As a consultant, we advise our customers to go with Cisco SD-WAN as this feature plus other added features exists by default. Still, for some old traditional WAN Customers, we advise them to go with Cisco WAAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the low bandwidth WAN links, enhancing the performance and speed of WAN traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

Granularity and Details from the outputs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

Rather complex than competitors. Need to knee in depth technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Brown outs and resiliency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

It is very helpfull for overcoming of latency,packet loss and increase the throughput Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

O dont like the licensing model. I dislike having to buy term based de support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

I did not faced a big problem. But olur network application experience has increased via Wan opt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

System operation used for daily work and safety Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

At time it can run slow, but that could be due to the amount of users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

Easy of use and the user interface. All graphs and dashboards are simplified and helpfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

The installation process is too complicated and takes a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Optimizing the WAN infrastructure is more and more important for all applications we are using.We increased our productivity by 20% Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WAN Optimization?

All graphs and dashboards are simplified and helpfull &Traffic Shaping and Data Caching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WAN Optimization?

The solution sometimes is costly and complicated in some scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WAN Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

Excellent monitoring capabilities of live devices to track usage and map traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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