WAN and Application Optimization

Plan For and Quantify the Performance Improvements from Cisco WAN and Application Optimization

Enterprises, service providers and government agencies all count on Cisco WAN and Application Optimization solutions to maintain the performance of business-critical applications in the face of infrastructure consolidation, increasing numbers of remote workers, and frequent application and service deployments. However, IT staff need to know precisely where to apply WAN optimization and application acceleration, carefully measure the impact, and closely monitor affected applications to avoid undesired consequences.

NetQoS partners with Cisco to provide management visibility to help IT organizations plan for and quantify the performance improvements associated with WAN and Application Optimization initiatives, including the deployment of application delivery controllers, WAN optimization devices, and network quality of service (QoS) policies. This partnership enables NetQoS to deliver the industry's first accurate, end-to-end application performance monitoring for WAN-optimized networks.

NetQoS helps IT organizations to:

• Classify and baseline the performance of applications, devices, and links to efficiently prioritize WAN optimization.
  
• Optimize WAN links and applications with confidence, guided by accurate, end-to-end performance metrics that prove the effectiveness of each initiative.
• Control application delivery by maintaining full visibility into the impact of QoS policies and other techniques.
• Manage optimized networks and applications to maintain optimal network and application performance in the face of change, ensure more efficient IT resource planning, and speed troubleshooting.

The NetQoS Performance Center delivers maximum visibility from Cisco services, including Cisco IOS NetFlow monitoring, IP SLA service-level reporting, NBAR, CBQoS, and detailed Cisco ACE performance reporting through SNMP. Exclusive capabilities, jointly developed with Cisco, provide accurate application performance monitoring on networks optimized by Cisco Wide Area Application Services^® devices.

With historical reporting and analysis of pre- and post-optimized applications, NetQoS customers know the normal performance baselines at different times of the day and during different business cycles. When implementing WAN optimization, NetQoS customers can immediately measure the impact on application response times, traffic flows, and WAN utilization.

How can NetQoS Help You With Cisco WAN and Application Optimization?

Classify and baseline the performance of applications, devices, and links

• Plan, measure, and manage the deployment of application delivery controllers, Quality of Service (QoS) policies, WAN optimization devices, and other initiatives.

• Identify the applications and users consuming bandwidth and document baselines so that you can quanitfy the impact of new optimization initiatives.

Optimize with confidence

• Analyze pre- and post-optimized performance, enterprise-wide, from a wide selection of Cisco services, such as Cisco NetFlow, CBQoS, NBAR, and IP SLA.
  
• Quantify WAN optimization performance improvements in the application, network, and server components.

Control application delivery

• Measure application, network, and server latency when consolidating branch servers into corporate data centers.
  
• Measure enterprise-wide WAN utilization and the applications, hosts, and conversations consuming bandwidth.
• Quantify branch office bandwidth savings when deploying WAN optimization products.
  

Manage optimized networks and applications

• Reduce the cost of WAN bandwidth while monitoring improvements to end-user performance.
• Maintain the visibility you need after optimization for efficient capacity planning and troubleshooting.

Learn more about how NetQoS products can help you put performance first when it comes to WAN optimization and application acceleration.

Download our Tech Brief on NetQoS WAN optimization for Cisco WAAS environments. View our informative Webinar on WAN optimization.

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