Measure the Impact of Cisco WAAS on Network and Application Performance with NetQoS

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 including:

• 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 (link to challenges with measuring WAN performance page)

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
  
• Enable rapid isolation of 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

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