Cisco WAAS (wide area application services)....

Cisco WAAS uses DRE and LZ compression to reduce WAN traffic by identifying and removing redundant content, leveraging a global and local database of DCP segments.

Understand how DCP optimization and deep compression in Cisco WAAS enhance throughput, reduce retransmissions, and mitigate congestion with local buffering, window scaling, and proxy-like architecture.

Cisco WAAS interception shows physical and off-device deployment, placing WAAS between the network line and router to selectively optimize traffic using policy-based routing, reducing bandwidth and latency.

Learn to configure Cisco WAAS inline card ports and groups within an inline deployment model, including grouping line cards, traffic routing, and cabling between line cards and switches.

Initialize Cisco WAAS central manager with the setup utility, configure device and network settings (IP address, default gateway, DNS, domain name). Save, apply, and register the central manager.

Identify traffic using classifiers that match conditions such as source and destination IP addresses and destination subnets, classify it into a traffic class, and apply the corresponding policy map.

Policy maps in Cisco WAAS classify traffic using application definitions and apply actions to matches, including pass-through. They optimize encrypted or compressed traffic with compression and accelerators.