Cisco Wide Area Application

Services (WAAS)

Carlos Aréstegui

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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Datacenter Transformation New Applications/Services Remote Access Evolution

 Virtualization  Rich Media, Video  Increased mobile users

 Private/Public Clouds  Any-any collaboration  ‘Low-footprint’ branches
 Software-as-a-Service  Virtual Desktops  Partner access

Customers
Home Office/
/ Partners
Coffee Shop
New IT and WAN
Optimization
xAAS - Cloud Requirements

DR Site Branch Office

DC Apps & Data Guest Users Campus

Branch Office

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 • Applications perform
well in LAN Round Trip Time ~ 0 ms
High bandwidth
Low latency
Client LAN Server
Reliability Switch

• Applications perform
poorly in WAN
Round Trip Time ~ 10’s – 100’s ms
Already congested
Low bandwidth
Latency LAN
Client Switch WAN LAN Server
Packet Loss switch

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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 Enhance User Productivity
 Application acceleration
Confident Migration to
Cloud
 Public and Private Cloud
Acceleration
Minimize Branch IT Costs
 Branch IT consolidation
 WAN bandwidth optimization
Increase Agility and Flexibility
 Best mix of centralized and
distributed IT

Software Solutions
 WAAS - ISR G2 Services-Ready Engine WAAS Mobile
 WAAS Express: IOS Integrated WAN Optimization ISR G2 Platforms
 vWAAS: Virtualized WAAS
Virtual WAAS WAAS Express Services-Ready Engine
 WAAS Mobile Software

Full appliance portfolio

 Virtual blade support for branches Branch Appliance
supporting Virtual Blades Data Center Appliance
 Scalable data center platforms

Dedicated router modules

Dedicated Router Module ISR Platforms

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 vWAAS
Branch Config DC/Cloud Configs

WAAS
Appliances WAVE-294 WAVE-594 WAVE-694 WAVE-7541 WAVE-8541
WAVE-7571

WAAS ISR
Modules
SM-SRE-700 SM-SRE-900

WAAS
Express
890 1941/2901 29xx 39xx

WAAS
Mobile
WAAS Mobile

Tele Worker Low Density Branch Large Branch, Regional Office, Data Center Head End, Large Enterprise /SP DC &
Retail Office Regional Office Commercial Head Regional Hub High Performance DC-DC
End

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 vWAAS Server
Virtual Private WAE VMs
Cloud
Nexus 1000v vPATH

WAAS VMware ESXi Server

Branch Office Express

Nexus 1000v VSM UCS /x86 Server

FC SAN
WAAS
Service
Branch Office Module
WAN Data Center or
WAAS
Private Cloud Appliances

WAAS
Appliance
Branch Office Internet
Server VMs

VMware ESXi
vWAAS
Appliances
VPN
WAAS
Appliance

Mobile User
WAAS WAAS Mobile
Mobile Software
Server SOHO User
Regional Office VPN

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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 Solutions

• Devices automatically discover one another

• Devices automatically negotiate optimization
capabilities
Benefits

• Eliminates need for complex overlay networks with tunnels

• And as the result reduces additional efforts associated with
management, security and monitoring

WCCPv2 WCCPv2
A or PBR WAN or PBR
B

A:B TCP SYN B:A TCP SYN/ACK A:B TCP

B:ASYN
TCP SYN/ACK A:B TCP SYN
(marked)
(marked) (marked)
B:A TCP SYN/ACK

ACCELERATION
CONFIRMED!
Need to accelerate I know
Acknowledge
WAE1 is
WAE1 this connection! WAE2 in the path, let’s
Acceleration!
Here are my details accelerate!
Here are my details

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Bandwidth
Utilization
2 3 WAAS TFO
1. Shorter/Better Slow Start
2. Improved Bandwidth Usage
1 3. Better Performance incase of
Standard TCP
High Packet Loss
Time (RTT)

• Improved WAN BW utilization & app throughput

• End-nodes isolation of unruly WAN conditions
• LAN like TCP behavior due to TCP Proxy

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 Solutions
Benefits
 Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE)
• New innovative context - aware
 Persistent LZ compression DRE
• Up to 100:1 compression

• Session-based compression
• Up to an additional 10:1 compression
even after DRE

WAN
LZ LZ

DRE DRE
Synchronized
Compression
History

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 Signatures
• In memory
• Persistent across reboot
• Synchronized
Signatures
Signatures Video signature2

email Branch1 Video signature1 branch2

email signature2 email
VDI signature1
Video signature1
email signature1
branch1 VDI signature1
VDI email signature1 VDI

Video Video
DRE WAN
LZ DRE LZ Transactional
Branch2 traffic
Directional
email traffic
LZ DRE
Video
Signatures
Video signature2
Data Center
email signature2

Data Store
• On disk
• Synchronized – transactional
traffic

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 • Application and Protocol Awareness
Minimize chatter
Safe caching
Scheduled File preposition

• Intelligent Server Offload

Caching and optimizations

• WAAS Application Accelerators

Citrix, CIFS, NFS, MAPI, Video, HTTP, SSL, Windows printing.

• Licensed developed and validated with application vendors

Remote Office Data Center

WAN

• Object Cache Verification

• Security and Control
• WAN Optimization
• Server Safely Offloaded
• Fewer Servers Needed
• LAN-like Performance • Power/Cooling Savings
• WAN Bandwidth Savings
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 Challenge
 "chatty" protocols

 WAN’s high latency, packet loss, and

bandwidth constraints significantly
diminishes Server access

Solution
 File and Metadata caching
 Read-ahead
• 2MB Word document open,  Message pipelining
results in over 1000 message
 Scheduled preposition to pre-populate
exchanges.
• 40ms RTT WAN, equates to  Transparent integration
more than 52 seconds of wait time  Dedicated CIFS cache
before the document is usable

WAN Benefit
 Enable consolidation of distributed file
and print resources into the data center
Files
without compromising performance
FILE.DOC CACHE
 Offload of Data Center Servers

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 Branch Office Data Center
WAN
First Pass: Read Ahead

1 Read 2 Read Request 3

Read Response Read Response 4
5 READ
AHEADS

6
Subsequent Requests: Serviced Locally

Local Read
&
7
Responses

WAN RTT Savings for subsequent requests

Faster Open, and Copy Operations

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 Branch Office Data Center
WAN

1 Local Write WAN RTT Savings for requests

& Faster write operations
Responses 2 3
Asynchronous
writes

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 No
No
changes to
changes to
servers
clients

Virtual Desktops
High Performance Virtual Transparent
Handshake
Desktops
Cisco Cisco
WAAS WAAS

Branch Office
Data Center

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 Up to 70%
Faster

60

50
Seconds (s)

40
Improved
70% User
30 faster
Experience

VDI Protocol
20

10

0
80ms T1 80ms T1
WAN WAN +
WAAS

Response Time

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 Up to 2X
More Users MMR Video: 90% B/W Reduction
140
50
45
120
40
60% 35
100 Savings 30
2X+
Kbps

25 Overall BW
80 Overall BW Consump.: 20
Users 20
Consump.: 1.75 MB
MB
15
(After WAAS
60 10
Optimization)

5
40 0

20

0
80ms T1 80ms T1 Original (MB) Optimized (MB)
WAN WAN +
WAAS

Bandwidth Consumption

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 HD Quality
Video Experience
30 Before
WAAS
25
Frame per second

HD Quality
20

15

10 Pixelated
Choppy
Out of Sync
5
With
0 WAAS
LAN 80ms T1 80ms T1
WAN WAN +
WAAS

Video Quality

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 Response-Time Reduction
Applications Protocols Typical Reduction Maximum Reduction
CIFS
File Sharing 20% 50% 99%
NFS
Exchange
Challenges Email OWA 90%
Lotus Notes
• Chatty Protocols
Web Apps HTTP
• WAN HighChallenges
Latency, High Packet HTTPS
80%

Loss, Low Bandwidth ... Software System Center

95%
Distribution Config. Manager
Microsoft
Enterprise
Oracle, SAP 90%
Application
Documentum
Solutions System Center Data
Backup Apps Protection Manager 85%
• Read-Ahead
Legato, Veritas
• Asynchronous write NetApp SnapMirror
• DRE hints Data Data Domain, Double Take, 99%
• Meta-dataChallenges
caching Replication Veritas Vol Replicator
• Conetxt - Aware DRE Microsoft RDP
VDI Citrix ICA
• and more VMWare View RDP
75%

Live Video
Video Video on Demand 90%

Broad Range of Applications

Fully Approved and Supported by Application Vendors

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 Remote
 Plug-and-Play Office

• No network changes
• Mechanical fail-to-wire

 Scalability and High Availability

• Up to 2
• Redundant network paths & asymmetry
• Load-sharing and fail-over

 Transparent Integration
• Transparency and auto discovery
• 802.1q VLAN trunking
• All WAE appliances
• Interception access list
WAN

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 Transparent integration and automatic discovery Scalable Data Center Integration

Application Control Engine

WCCPv2 Remote • Appliance & Catalyst 6500 series module
• Active/active clustering Office • 1Gbps to 64Gbps
• Automatic load-balancing • 4M concurrent connections
• Load redistribution • Cluster 100s of WAEs
• Fail-over
• Fail-through operation Client
• Near-linear scalability & performance

WCCP variable timer WAN

 Configurable timeout (9,15,30 Sec)
 default = 30 Sec (same as pre WAAS
4.4)
4.4
Multiple WCCP Service Groups
 multiple WAAS WCCP farms per router
 WAE supports one service pair (1-100)
 Priority on router: low service ID = high
priority

Policy Based Routing WAN

• Cisco WAE as a next-hop router Data Center
• Active/passive clustering

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  Compliance with critical network services such us
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Network Management
• Application Performance Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Application Optimizers
• Security Advanced Compression
• Optimized Routing Transport Optimization

 Disk Encryption
• Mitigate concern of data theft WAN

• Standards-Based Strong
Encryption (FIPS 140-2 level 2,
256-bit AES)
SrcIP 1.1.1.1 SrcPort 1434 Optimized
DstIP 2.2.2.2 DstPort 80 Data

SrcIP 1.1.1.1 SrcPort 1434

Application Data
DstIP 2.2.2.2 DstPort 80

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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IOS based Integrated WAN Optimization solution
Solution Client

 Bandwidth optimization

 Fast delivery of data over low speed, high latency WAN Branch
links from data centers WAAS
Express

Benefit

 Small-footprint cost-effective software solution,

transparently integrates into the ISR G2 WAE CM

 Natively uses capabilities of Cisco IOS® Software

 Increases remote user productivity

 Reduces WAN bandwidth costs

 Offers investment protection by interoperating with Data

existing Cisco WAAS infrastructure. Servers Center

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Features WAAS Express Cisco WAAS hardware
Auto-discovery of end Supported Supported
nodes
TFO (Transport Supported Supported
Optimization)
Compression Supported Supported
DRE (Data Redundancy - Memory based. - Disk based.
Elimination) - Non-persistent cache - Persistent cache.
BIC-TCP Supported Supported
WAAS Central Manager Cisco WAAS Version 4.3.1+ Supported
Application Optimizers None supported Supported
WAAS SW Compatibility Cisco WAAS Version 4.2.1 + Cisco WAAS Backward compatible

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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Accelerate cloud-bursting, workload mobility, virtualized deployment
Virtual Private
Clouds Private Cloud

Enterprise B Enterprise A Enterprise A

WAAS

WAN

Challenges
Challenges Cisco WAAS Benefits
 Access to Virtual Branch Office  Accelerate to VPC and
Private Cloud other clouds
 Workload mobility  Elastic multi-tenancy
Mobile
 Scale-out Users WAAS  Policy based
orchestration lowers
opex

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 1 Private Cloud

• Traditional WAN Edge Deployment at

Branch and DC
WAN or
Internet VMware ESXi Server
 Gradual migration from Physical to
Virtual
 Multi-tenancy support
UCS /x86 Server
WCCP
Private Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud,
VMware ESXi
2 & Public Cloud
 Re-direction using vPath @VM level
 Elastic provisioning
Nexus 2K/5K
 Multi-tenancy support

vPATH
Nexus 1000V vPATH
VMware ESXi Server
Nexus 1000V vPATH
VMware ESXi Server

UCS Compute/ UCS Compute/

Physical servers Virtualized Servers UCS /x86 Server

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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 Usability and scalability
• Single Point Configuration, Monitoring, and reporting
• Device grouping
• Device/system alarms + SNMP and syslog integration
• Platforms
WAAS appliances, WAAS Modules, WAAS Express, vWAAS
• SOA-ready Monitoring
Standard XML Web Service (SOAP)
Integration with external reporting and monitoring portals

High Availability
• Active/standby
• Automatic failover
• Config replication

Security
• HTTPS GUI and intra-device communication Optimization
• RBAC support enabled
• Integrated IOS-like CLI accessible via SSH
4.4
Integrated Application Performance Monitoring
• Improved visibility to application performance
• Effective integrated Management & monitoring
• Rapid analysis of application performance issues

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 Without Flow Export Flow Export Agent
No optimization Agent (Inaccurate) Enabled (Accurate)

• Transparent Integration
Packet header preservation
Enables visibility to end-nodes

• Flow Export Agent

Transmit accurate connection data to monitoring
systems
Eliminates WOC distortion of TCP RTT analysis

• Central Manager API Optimization Enabled

Single view of Application Performance
Management and Optimization

Cisco NAM

WAN

TCP Flow Export Agent

Remote Office
WAAS CM
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 Total Maximum WAN
Recommended Max TCP
Platform DRAM bandwidth
Number of Users Connections
Required Supported
88x 768 M 1.5Mbps 1-10 75

89x 768 M 2 Mbps 1-10 75

1921* 512 M 512 Kbps 1–5 50

1941 2.5 G 4 Mbps 15-20 150

2901 2.5 G 6 Mbps 15-20 150

2911 2.5 G 6 Mbps 25 200

2921 2.5 G 6 Mbps 25 200

2951 4G 6 Mbps 25 200

3925 4G 10 Mbps 50 500

3945 4G 10 Mbps 50 500

 WAAS Express requires maximum DRAM installed as indicated
 Typical Interfaces – 3G, T1, E1, Multi T1s, Multi E1s, and Serial
 Performance Testing Conducted with IOS FW, VPN (IPsec), NAT, and, QoS

* 1921 – no DRE support – only TFO/LZ, no additional memory required

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 Number
Max Opt WAN
Hardware Memory of Drive Connectivity
TCP RAID Capacity
Configuration (GB) Virtual (GB) Options
Conn (Mbps)
Blades

NME-WAE-302 .5 250 N/A 80 N/A 4 N/A

NME-WAE-502 1 400 N/A 120 N/A 4 N/A

NME-WAE-522 2 800 N/A 160 N/A 8 N/A

SM-SRE-
4 500 N/A 500 N/A 20 N/A
700/710
SM-SRE-
4 1000 N/A 500 RAID-1 50 N/A
900/910

4 200 2 10
WAVE-294 250 N/A
8 400 2 20

8 750 2 50 4 port GE Cu
Optional
WAVE-594 500 2nd HDD 8 port GE Cu
12 1,300 4 for RAID1 100 4 port GE fiber

16 2,500 4 200
WAVE-694 2x600 RAID-1
24 6,000 6 200

* Final recommendations requires a detailed sizing exercise that include application traffic mix, traffic characteristics, application load and other factors
mentioned in the sizing guidelines.
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 WAN
Hardware Memory Max Opt Drive Connectivity
RAID Capacity
Configuration (GB) TCP Conn (GB) Options
(Mbps)

WAVE-7541 24 18,000 6 x 450 RAID-5 500

2 port 10GE SFP+
WAVE-7571 48 60,000 8 x 450 RAID-5 1,000 8 port GE Cu
4 port GE fiber
WAVE-8541 96 150,000 8 x 600 RAID-5 2,000

Model MAX Virtual Memory Hard Disk WAAS

Devices Cores GB GB Model
vCM-100N 100 2 2 250 -

vCM-2000N 2000 4 8 600 694

Performance results based on
Cisco UCS C210 M2
Cisco UCS B250 M2 Model OPT TCP WAN BW Virtual Memory Hard Disk WAAS
Conn Mbps Cores GB GB Model
vWAAS-200 200 10 1 2 160 294

vWAAS-750 750 50 2 4 250 594

vWAAS-6000 6000 200 4 8 500 694

vWAAS-12000 12000 310 4 12 750 -

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 2 port 10GE 4 port GE Cu 8 port GE Cu 4 port GE Fiber
Module Module Module Module

Part Number WAVE-10GE-2SFP WAVE-INLN-GE-4T WAVE-INLN-GE-8T WAVE-INLN-GE-4SX

Inline Mode ✓ ✓ ✓

Media SFP+ SR N/A N/A N/A

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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 Install Edge WAE through
CLI setup wizard Install Core WAE through
CLI setup wizard
Install central Manager
through CLI setup wizard

3 1
INLINE INLINE 2 INLINE INLINE
Central
LAN WAN LAN WAN Manager

Emulated
WAN
Inline branch Inline DC
Client Cisco WAE Cisco WAE 4
server

Verify operation/performance
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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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Cost Effective Comprehensive Cloud Ready

 Most cost-effective  Improves end user -  Starts with branch

application experience and consolidated data
 Saves up to 40% over centers
comparable  Only portfolio that fits
every site  Transparently scaling
 Delivers operational to cloud & SAAS
flexibility at scale  Proven end-to-end
architectural approach

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• Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges
• Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services
• Cisco WAAS Product Architecture
• Application Specific Acceleration
• WAAS Express
• Virtual WAAS
• Network-embedded virtualization
• Remote Access Optimization with WAAS Mobile
• Management and WAE Platforms
• WAAS Installation steps
• Summary
• Q&A

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