• Technical

• None

After you complete this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies.
• Explain how Cisco WAAS and the WAE integrate into an existing network infrastructure.
• Explain how to initially configure the Cisco WAE, device mode, and network interception options.
• Explain how Cisco WAAS Central Manager is used to centrally configure, manage, and monitor a topology of WAE devices.
• Explain how Cisco WAAS Transport Flow Optimizations (TFO) improve TCP behaviour for applications existing in Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
• Explain how Cisco WAAS advanced compression minimizes unnecessary bandwidth consumption and helps improve application performance over the WAN. 
• Explain how Cisco WAAS Application Traffic Policies are used to define system behaviour when encountering specific applications.
• Explain why application-specific optimizations are required for file services protocols, and how Cisco WAAS improves performance for CIFS and NFS.
• Discuss WAAS print services capabilities, why they are necessary, and how they work.
• Explain how to monitor and troubleshoot Cisco WAAS.

Lesson 1. Positioning and Business Benefits:

• Branch consolidation
• WAAS positioning
• Centralized storage
• Business & performance benefits
• Governance & compliance
• Case Study 1.

Lesson 2. Technical overview, performance and operation:

• Cisco WAE Hardware Platforms
• Application Acceleration
• WAN optimization
• Caching
• QOS
• Netflow

Lesson 3. Design, Implementation & Management:

• Initial Device Configuration
• Configuring WAE Interfaces
• Configuring WCCPv2
• Configuring PBR
• The WAE Device GUI
• WAAS Central Manager
• High Availability
• Lab. Installing and Configuring the WAE

Lesson 4. Competitive Overview & Case Studies:

• Riverbed
• Citrix
• WAN Optimization devices
• Case studies.