Cisco WAAS and NetQoS
Measure the Impact of Cisco WAN Optimization on Network and Application Performance with NetQoS
“Cisco Application Delivery Networks provide the acceleration, security, and availability customers need to improve application service across the extended enterprise. NetQoS specializes in providing performance analytics across an enterprise infrastructure. By extending support to include both Cisco WAAS and ACE, customers now have a single data-center-to-WAN solution to understand and prove the value they are receiving from our products, as well as help quickly troubleshoot any issues that may be impacting application delivery.”
--George Kurian
Vice President and General Manager,
Application Delivery Business Unit
Cisco
IT professionals rely on the accuracy of their monitoring and management tools to ensure applications and networks operate effectively. Unfortunately, by design, WAN optimization devices apply optimization techniques on application packets that affect network and application monitoring and reporting tools, resulting in significant problems that include:
- Loss of visibility into response time, server response time, data transfer time and protocol distribution metrics
- Inability to accurately quantify the benefits of WAN optimization
- Difficulty in troubleshooting and identifying the true bottlenecks throughout an enterprise network
- Inability to leverage the existing investment in network and application performance monitoring systems
NetQoS and Cisco collaborated to create the industry’s first comprehensive end-to-end response time measurement software for WAN optimization. Users of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices can now use NetQoS products to overcome the performance monitoring limitations created by WAN Optimization solutions, and calculate accurate TCP application response times in a WAAS environment. Now, IT organizations can:
- Accurately quantify end-to-end response time, WAN bandwidth utilization and protocol distribution, and LAN/WAN data throughput before and after Cisco WAAS implementation
- Rapidly isolate network and server bottlenecks in a WAN-optimized environment
- Ensure confident investment decision-making with accurate end-to-end visibility
- Protect and leverage existing investments made in network and application performance monitoring tools while deploying Cisco WAAS
Application Response Time Improvements with Cisco WAAS
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NetQoS SuperAgent enables IT organizations to measure improvements after Cisco WAAS deployment.
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