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Product Information on Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Updated 13th October 2025
What is Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)?
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Pricing
Overall experience with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
ICT Support Engineer
50M - 250M USD, ManufacturingFAVORABLE
“Optimizing Internet Speed Effectively: An Insight into Cisco WAAS”
I had a very positive experience with Cisco WAAS. It is a very good platform for optimising your ISP and your bandwidth usage. Cisco has always been known for its network optimising solutions, but this is one of the best products on the market. Policies can be defined not only on the basis of IP addresses but on the basis of applications as well like Teams, Zoom etc where you need proper bandwidth without any lag. Overall, it is a must product and I am very happy to have it.
Senior Manager IT Infrastructure
250M - 500M USD, Services (non-Government)CRITICAL
“Difficult implementation and maintenance, Buggy Code and a less than stellar experience”
Extremely complicated to both deploy and maintain. Serious issues with code stability of WAAS - ended up deploying 3 different versions and had to roll back to old 5.5.7 code for successful deployment. Deployment had to be stalled while Cisco involved internal product teams for months to resolve issues. Cisco Prime is an inferior management product and APIC EM just doesnt work as advertised. In retrospect we should have gone another route.
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