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© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Presentation_ID 1

Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) The WAN Optimisation & Application Acceleration Solution


Agenda

  Market and Branch Office Challenges

  What is WAAS?

  3 Functions of WAAS - WAN Optimisation: 3 technologies - Application Acceleration: adaptors - Data protection & Compliance: infrastructure consolidation

  WAAS solution highlights

  Roadmap

  WAAS Platforms

  Case studies

  Summary


Businesses are under Increasing Pressure

Power & Cooling Provisioning Asset Utilization Threat Prevention Bus. Continuance

IT Constraints

IT Has Evolved Accordingly •  Advances in IT Management (e.g. Service Delivery, Governance) •  Sophisticated Data Center Best Practices


Branch Office Today

80% of enterprise workers work outside headquarters Source: Nemertes Research

Branches consume 70- 90% of business resources Source: NetworkWorld

Companies spend 6 billion dollars per year on branch servers, storage, backup and management Source: IDC, Gartner, Cisco Analysis

“Most enterprises have many servers running at 15% or less utilization, but still requiring 100% administration.” Source: Gartner

“The average branch has 4-6 servers Source: Nemertes Research

Trend


WAN Performance & Cost Prevent Data Center Centralization

Causes of Branch Office Cost & Complexity

  Branch Data is out of Control

  Servers Everywhere

  Poor Utilization   Costly duplication of IT

Processes

  Data Storage Everywhere

  Insufficient Security Data Loss Data Theft

  Inadequate or non-existent Backup/Recovery

  High Availability too costly

  New initiatives almost impossible

Management of

Distributed IT Staff

 HIGH RISK

 HIGH COST

 LOW BUSINESS AGILITY


Branch Office - the New Frontier

 Branch storage & server consolidation

  Lower branch TCO

  LAN-like branch access for centralised application

 Data protection in the Data Center

 Ease of operation


Cisco Wide Area Application Services

 Cisco WAAS is a powerful new application acceleration and WAN optimization solution for branch offices that optimizes performance of any TCP-based application across a WAN.

 This allows customers to confidently deploy centralized applications, and consolidate costly branch servers and storage into data centers, while offering LAN-like performance for remote users.


Cisco WAAS Market Share CQ4’07

Key points: Cisco at close No. 2 slot (20%) within 0.2% of leading competitor (20.2%) Cisco again grew by more revenue & faster % vs. leading competitor

$16.5M vs. $10.5M (3Q07-4Q07: 37.5% vs. 20.6%)


Cisco WAAS Market Share CY2007

Key points: Cisco at No. 2 slot (18.9%) within 2% of leading competitor (20.8%) Cisco grew from $19.5M CQ4’06 to $60.5M CQ4’07 – over 300% year-to-year


Agenda

1.  WAN OPTIMISATION

  DRE

  LZ Compression

  TFO


  Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE): application-agnostic compression eliminates redundant data from TCP streams providing up to 100:1 compression

  Persistent LZ Compression: session-based compression provides up to an additional 10:1 compression even for messages that have been optimized by DRE

DRE DRE

Synchronized DRE Context

LZ LZ

Cisco WAAS Advanced Compression


TCP Sawtooth

Time (RTT) Slow start Congestion avoidance

Packet loss Packet loss Packet loss cwnd

Packet loss TCP

Return to maximum throughput could take a

very long time!


Comparing TCP and Transport Flow Optimisation

Time (RTT) Slow start Congestion avoidance

cwnd

TCP

TFO

Cisco TFO provides significant throughput improvements over standard TCP implementations


Cisco WAAS Performance – Exchange Sending and Receiving of

E-mail with 1MB Attachment over

T1 (1.544 Mbps) Line with 80-ms Latency Microsoft Exchange

No Cached Mode

32 Seconds 16 Seconds 48 Seconds

Sending and Receiving of E-mail with 5MB Attachment over

T1 (1.544 Mbps) Line with 80-ms Latency Microsoft Exchange

No Cached Mode


Sending and Receiving E-Mail with 1MB Attachment over

T1 (1.544 Mbps) Line with 80-ms Latency

Microsoft Exchange Cached Mode


Sending and Receiving E-Mail with 5MB Attachment over

T1 (1.544 Mbps) Line with 80-ms Latency

Microsoft Exchange Cached Mode


Legend

Send and Receive over WAN First Send and Receive with Cisco WAAS Future Send and Receive with Cisco WAAS


Agenda

1.  APPLICATION ACCELERATION

  Application adaptors

  Pre-population


WAN

Application-Specific Acceleration  Application and protocol awareness

Eliminate unnecessary chatter Save WAN bandwidth Pre-populate edge cache as necessary Enable disconnected operations

  Intelligent protocol acceleration Improves application response time Provide origin server offload

 Application adapters CIFS (Windows File Services) Print services

Application Specific

Acceleration

Safe Caching Read-ahead Prediction Batching

WAN Optimization DRE/TFO/LZ

Origin Server

Offloaded


Cisco WAAS Performance – File Services

Opening 5-MB PowerPoint


Saving 5-MB PowerPoint

Operations over T1 (1.544Mbps), 80mS RTT

Drag and Drop of 5MB

PowerPoint

20 Seconds

Legend

Operation Over Native WAN First Operation with WAAS Future Operation with WAAS

Download of 8MB Package Microsoft SMS

60 Seconds 40 Seconds 80 Seconds 20 Seconds

Operation over native WAN First operation with WAAS, no preposition

Future operation with WAAS First operation with WAAS, with preposition

Legend


Sample of Default Application Policies for WAAS Products/Vendors supports Application MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2 SQL Exchange (MAPI), Lotus Notes, HP Openmail Email SAP, Oracle, Siebel Enterprise Web Apps Documentum, FileNet, Clearcase, CVS Document & Configuration Mgt

iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP, Microsoft Remote Replication, Rsync, NetApp Snapmirror, Legato Replistor

Storage & Data Replication

NDMP, Veritas NetBackup & Backup Exec, Legato, Commvault, Connected

Backup

CIFS, NFS, AFS, Apple AFP File Services LDAP, Kerberos, SASL, TACACS Authentication & Directories

BMC Patrol, Cisco FlowAnalyzer, HP OpenView/Radia, IBM Tivoli Systems Management PCAnywhere, VMware VMConsole, VNC, Altiris CarbonCopy, Laplink Remote Administration

SOAP (XML), Citrix, Symantec Anti-virus, Novell Suite (NetWare, Groupwise, Zenworks)

Other

* This is a sample list of the 150+ default policies. Customers can create additional policies


What can you expect?

Category Applications 2X 5X 10X ACCELERATION 100X+

File Sharing CIFS NFS

Email Microsoft Exchange Lotus Notes Internet Mail

Web and Collaboration

HTTP WebDAV FTP Microsoft Sharepoint

Software Distribution

Microsoft SMS Altiris HP Radia

Enterprise Applications

Microsoft SQL Oracle, SAP Lotus Notes

2-20X Avg >100X Peak

2-5X Avg 20X Peak

2-10X Avg 100X Peak

2-20X Avg >100X Peak

2-5X Avg 20X Peak

50X Peak 50X Peak

* Performance improvement varies based on user workload, compressibility of data, and WAN characteristics and utilization. Actual numbers are case-specific and results may vary. Cisco WAAS can employ optimization on almost any TCP-based application.


Cisco WAAS Print Services

  Centrally Managed Print Services

  Supports Any Printer

  Job control and status monitoring

  Print Server Configuration Network parameters (IP, name, etc) Queue definition and ACLs


Agenda

1.  DATA PROTECTION & COMPLIANCE

  Infrastructure consolidation


Server and Storage Consolidation

Retail Branch

Sales Office

IP Network

Archive Storage

Data Center

Tier1 Storage

Tier2 Storage

Regional Office

Eliminate Duplicate

File Servers

Eliminate Duplicate

App Servers

Eliminate Duplicate

Tape Backup Eliminate

Licences & Maintenance

Consolidate Servers with

VMWare

Virtual Machines APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

Leverage Storage Tiering


Agenda

1.  Solution highlights

  Network Transparency

  Central Management

  Flexible Platform & Deployment


Traditional WAN Optimization: Not Seamless, but Disruptive to Existing Network

WAN NAS

Client Workstation LAN Switch WAN Router WAN Router Edge Device Core Device Firewall Firewall

LAN Switch Origin File Server

A B Preservation of IP and TCP Header Information

QoS NBAR

NetFlow ACL NAT

Security Filter VPN

Optimization Tunnel

Traditional WAN Optimization changes header information

Result: • Services may not work • Extra integration required • Risk of downtime due to dedicated links

Traditional WAN Optim.


Cisco WAAS: Seamless Network Integration, Service Preservation

IP Network NAS

Client Workstation LAN Switch

LAN Switch

Edge WAE Core WAE

A B Full Preservation of IP and TCP Header Information

Data Center Scalability

Transport and Flow Optimizations Data Redundancy Elimination Accelerates ALL TCP Traffic

Robust Application Adapters to Offload

WAN and Data Center Local Services

Firewall Firewall

Security Filter VPN

WAN Router

QoS NBAR

NetFlow ACL NAT

WAN Router

Visibility NetFlow

QoS Cisco WAAS


Network Transparency

•  Header Transparency: preserves the original source & destination IP addresses, ports & DSCP settings across the WAN. WAN traffic is transparently redirected to the proper WAE devices.

•  Interception Transparency: both the client & server are not aware of the existence of the WAE devices in the path. Client sends traffic to the original server’s IP address & vice-versa. LAN traffic is transparently redirected to the proper WAE devices.

•  Configuration Transparency (auto-discovery): WAE devices need not be aware beforehand of the existence & addresses of peer WAE devices. A device intercepting client traffic will automatically discover if there is a another WAE device at the far end of the WAN & established an optimised connection.


Auto-Discovery Ease of Installation and Management

WAN

 Cisco WAAS devices automatically discover one another and negotiate optimization capabilities

 Eliminates the need for complex overlay networks with tunnels that could double management effort and break control, security, and monitoring systems

WAE1 WAE2

WCCPv2 or PBR

WCCPv2 or PBR A B


Scalable & Resilient Off-path Deployment

  WCCPv2 Interception Active/active clustering supports up to 32 WAEs and 32 routers with automatic load-balancing, load redistribution, fail-over, and fail-through operation

Near-linear scalability and performance improvement when adding devices

  Policy-Based Routing Interception Routing of flows to be optimized through a Cisco WAE as a next-hop router

Active/passive clustering provides high availability and failover using IP SLAs as a tracking mechanism

  Seamless Transparent Integration Transparency and automatic discovery

WAN

Optimized Flow

Original Flow

Interception Redirection Monitoring

WAE Cluster

Remote Office


Simple In-path Deployment

  Simple Plug-and-Play Physical in-path deployment No network changes required Fail-to-wire upon hardware, software, or power

failure

  Scalability and High Availability Support for redundant network paths and

asymmetric routing Serial in-path clustering with load-sharing and

fail-over

  Seamless Transparent Integration Transparency and automatic discovery 802.1q VLAN trunking support Supported on all WAE appliance models

Remote Office

WAN


WAAS Intuitive Central Management

• Comprehensive Management –  Central configuration –  Device grouping –  Monitoring, statistics –  Alerts, reporting

• Easy-to-use Interface –  Graphical U/I, Wizards –  IOS CLI –  Roles-based administration

• Proven Scalability –  1000’s of nodes –  Redundancy and recovery


Central Manager Features

•  System Status Bar: overall device & content health of the system. Monitor WAE devices to identify any problems in the network.

•  Devices Window: displays a list of all the devices in your WAAS network along with basic information about each device such as device status & current software version.

•  Device Home Window: - detailed information about a specific device such as installed software version and if the device is online or offline - which device group the device belongs to -  number of policies residing on the device

•  System logging feature: set parameters for privilege level settings & administrative details.


Central Manager Features

•  Real time transaction logging

•  Traffic Statistics Report to Monitor Applications: provides charts and detailed statistics on application traffic for an individual WAE or entire WAAS network.

-  total traffic reduction percentage rate -  application traffic mix: top 9 applications with most traffic -  application traffic: compare specific applications traffic with total traffic processed on WAE device -  pass through traffic mix: most common reason that traffic passed through the WAE device unoptimised

•  View CPU Utilisation for a device

•  Troubleshooting using CLI


Agenda

1.  Roadmap

  DC-to-DC replication license

  Windows on WAAS (WoW)

  Major software release


WAAS version 4.0.19

 May’08 release  DC-to-DC replication acceleration license

  Improve replication performance to reduce backup window

 Tested with Netapp SnapMirror & EMC SRDF/A over native IP or FCIP with Cisco MDS

  License applicable only for WAE7371 & 7341 platforms which will be dedicated to this function and will not provide other WAN traffic optimisation which requires Transport or Enterprise license


Windows on WAAS

Optimizing Branch IT Services

Microsoft and Cisco Vision for Optimizing IT Services in the Branch


Announcement Summary

 Microsoft and Cisco Enhance Branch Offices through Integration of Windows Server 2008 and Cisco WAAS

  Integrated Solution: Windows Server 2008 pre-installed on Virtualization-ready WAAS Appliances – WAE674

  Joint GTM: Co-marketing, channel partner engagement

 Collaborative Customer Support

  Launch Event: @ Windows Server 2008 Launch in LA & Wave event on Mar 26 in Spore

 Solution availability: Jul/Aug 2008


Cisco WAAS with Virtualization

Microsoft and Cisco Solution

  Branch optimized IT services Read-only Domain Controller Print services DNS/DHCP services

  Complete WAN optimization + application acceleration

  Ability to host Windows services locally

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Core

 Jointly developed architecture  Joint customer support

Cisco WAAS with pre-packaged Windows Server 2008 services


What’s coming up in WAAS?   Major software release version 4.1 due in Jul/Aug’08

  SSL Adaptor

  MAPI Adaptor

  HTTP Adaptor

  NFSv3 Adaptor

  Video Streaming Adaptor

  CIFs optimisation for Windows Print Server

  Virtual Blades (VB)

  Adaptive/Dynamic TFO Buffering

  Application QoS

  Central Manager Enhancements


High End (310Mbps-1Gbps)

Cisco WAE Model Line Up

PRICE

PERFORMANCE

Small Branch Office

Large Data

Center

Medium Data

Center

Mid-Range (20-155Mbps)

Entry Level (4-8Mbps)

4Mbps 250 TCP

4Mbps 500 TCP

8Mbps 800 TCP

Cisco ISR 2811 NME 302

Cisco ISR 2800/3800 NME

502

Cisco ISR 3800 NME 522

Cisco WAE 512

Cisco WAE 612

Cisco WAE 7326 20Mbps

1500 TCP

90Mbps 6000 TCP

155Mbps 7500 TCP

310Mbps 12000 TCP

1Gbs 50000 TCP

Cisco WAE 7341

Cisco WAE 7371


Cisco WAE Pricing & Availability Platform Hardware

NM-WAE Router integrated branch

services

•  1 Processor, up to 1GB memory; up to 120GB SATA storage

WAE-512 Branch Office Appliance

•  1 Processor; 1-2 GB memory; 250 GB SATA disk storage (optional RAID-1)

• WAE-612 • Large Branch Office

Appliance • Small Data-Center /Hub

Appliance

•  1 Dual Core Processor; 2-4 GB memory; 300GB SCSI disk storage (optional RAID-1)

• WAE-7326 • Campus Appliance

• Data-Center/Hub Appliance

•  Dual Processor; 4GB of memory up to 1.8TB SCSI disk storage

• WAE-7341 • Large Data Center Appliance

•  Quad-core processor, 8GB of RAM •  Up to 310Mbps WAN connections and 12000 optimized TCP

connections •  Up to 1.5TB RAID-6 protected and hot-swappable SATA2 disk

capacity with optional disk encryption

• WAE-7371 • Large Data Center Appliance

•  Dual Quad-core processors, 24GB of RAM •  Up to 1Gbps WAN connections and 50000 optimized TCP

connections •  Up to 3TB RAID-6 protected and hot-swappable SATA2 disk

capacity with optional disk encryption

NM-WAE

WAE-7326

WAE-612

WAE-512

WAE-7341

WAE-7371


1 new WAAS customer every 90 minutes Financial Services

Engineering/Defense/ Automotive

Energy/Transport/ Chemicals Retail/Consumer Professional Services

Healthcare/Bio/Pharma Media/Telecom/Tech Fed/Gov/NGO


Customer Testimonial: West Coast Retail Bank with 10,000 Branches

Challenges:

  At least 1 server at each of their 10,000 branches.

  81% data has not been accessed in over 3 months.

  CIO targeted with $100M cost reduction in 2006.

Cost Savings By WAAS & ACE:   OpEx (Tape, Software &

Hardware Maintenance):$4.3M

Cost Avoidance:

  CapEx: Server Encryption and Refreshing: $16.3M

Scalability Cisco WAAS Another Leading Vendor

Single Device 50,000 Optimized Sessions

40,000 Optimized Sessions

With Native Clustering

 1.6 million Optimized Sessions  32Gbps optimized throughput

 1 million Optimized Sessions  10 Gbps optimized throughput

With External Load Balancing

With Cisco ACE:  16 million Optimized Sessions  64Gbps optimized throughput

4Gbps: Inline deployment provides only 4Gbps and 1M TCP connections across 25 appliances


ENGlobal Consolidates Branch & Data Center

WAN Bandwidth Optimization

LAN-like Applications

Branch & Data Center Consolidation

•  170 CAD applications •  Microsoft Dynamics CRM •  Microsoft Solomon

• Engineering and professional services firm with 2,200 employees • 18 offices and 20 customer sites • Consolidated 6 data centers into 2

Cisco WAAS

“The tunnel-less Cisco WAAS design makes it very easy for me to manage VPNs and other network-based services so I can remain focused on projects that contribute to the company’s success.”

—Abraham Madha, Chief Information Officer, ENGlobal Corporation

Detailed case study: www.cisco.com/go/waas

•  $90K/ yr bandwidth saving •  50% bandwidth usage cut •  Transparent to MPLS WAN •  Make room for VoIP

Cisco ISR

•  Main site: Texas •  DR site: Tulsa, Oklahoma •  Consolidated 25 branch server

farms into the data center •  125 centralized servers •  Centralized storage and backup


Customer testimonials: City of Fort Wayne

“I could not believe that I was opening a remote file – it came up so quickly that I thought I must have opened a local copy instead. The results proved that we can move ahead with our plans to use more video on demand for training classes, knowing that the Cisco solution can give us the performance we need to make it a success.”


Customer testimonials: Sabre Holdings Corp

“Cisco WAAS has played a critical role in our server and storage centralization, delivering increased data integrity, steady employee productivity, and reduce remote office costs, while helping avoid costly WAN upgrades.”


Value propositions of Cisco WAAS   Network-transparent tunnel-less architecture

  Integration with QoS ensures reliable prioritization, bandwidth allocation, protection, and control of latency-sensitive voice traffic

  Role-based Access Control (RBAC) for more secure management of devices

  Secures all data @ rest using Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197 based 256-bit Advance Encryption Standard (AES) disk encryption

  Only WAN optimization product being evaluated for Common Criteria Validation Scheme (CCEVS), or ISO 15408, and Payment Card Industry (PCI) 1.1 compliance

  Industry-leading single-device scalability

  Comprehensive roadmap

  Server offload instead of overload

  Flexible deployment options

  Only vendor with integrated router offering


Useful Links •  WAAS Introduction

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5680/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html

•  Monitoring and troubleshooting your WAAS Network http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v401/configuration/guide/monitor.html

•  Using the WAE Device Manager GUI http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/waas/waas/v401/configuration/guide/device.html

•  Customer Case Studies

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/products_category_customer_case_studies.html

•  2-minute video featuring 4 real-world demo of WAAS deployments accelerating CAD, data backup, corporate & radiology files over a WAN http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/products_promotion0900aecd805df27d.html

•  Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Fundamentals Pressbook by Ted Grevers & Joel Christner, CCIE, TMM for ADBU http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587053160&rl=1

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