Product Overview

The Cisco Wide Area Application Virtualization Engine (WAVE) product line consists of cost-effective, cloud-ready, video-enabled solutions for the branch office and the data center. With the industry's broadest product portfolio and flexible deployment models, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) cost-effectively addresses the WAN optimization needs of small, medium-sized, and large customers 

Cisco WAVE Appliances for Branch-Office and Core Deployments

In Cisco WAAS Software Release 5.2 and later, the Cisco WAVE 294, 594, and 8541 can optionally be equipped with solid-state drives (SSDs). SSDs provide more reliable storage than existing hard disk drives (HDDs). Table 1 lists the supported SSD sizes for these platforms.

Table 1. Cisco WAVE Platforms That Support SSDs with Cisco WAAS 5.2 and Later

For more information, refer to the hardware specifications in Table 3 later in this document.

Benefits include the following:

● Improve employee productivity by enhancing the user experience for important business applications delivered over the WAN.

● Reduce the cost of branch-office operations by centralizing IT resources in the data center and lowering the cost of WAN bandwidth and by hosting Microsoft Windows applications on the Cisco WAVE branch-office appliance.

● Deliver enterprise-class video while reducing WAN bandwidth consumption with the Cisco WAAS video application optimizer or hosted Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) virtual blade.

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

● Simplify branch-office data protection for regulatory compliance purposes.

Cisco WAVE Appliances for the Data Center

Cisco WAVE data center appliances provide the high performance and scalable WAN optimization that data center solutions require. Benefits include:

● User-selectable I/O modules with support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber, 1 Gigabit Ethernet copper, and 1 Gigabit Ethernet fiber

● Flexible deployment models including inline and Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) for high performance, scalability, and network availability

● High performance for video, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud applications as well as traditional enterprise applications; using context-aware data redundancy elimination (DRE), Cisco WAVE appliances can adapt caching behavior on the basis of the characteristics of individual applications, resulting in higher throughput and lower application latency

Main Features

Table 2 summarizes the main features of the Cisco WAVE appliances, and Table 3 summarizes the main features of I/O options modules.

Table 2. Cisco WAVE Appliances

Notes:

1. Existing systems cannot be upgraded to use SSDs. When ordering, SSDs can optionally be added to Cisco WAVE 294, 594, and 8541 when ordering with initial system only. Cisco WAAS Software Release 5.2 or later is required for SSDs.

2. All temperature ratings shown are for sea level to 3281 feet (1000 meters). If operating location is above 3281 feet (1000 meters), deduct 5.4ºF (3ºC) from the maximum operating temperature for each additional 3281 feet (1000 meters).