NetQos and Cisco Team Up for WAN Optimisation
NetQos and Cisco Team Up for WAN Optimisation
July 26th, 2007: WAN Optimisation is shaping up for major change with this latest announcement from NetQos and Cisco.
The partnership has been formed to develop a management interface for end-to-end application response time measurement for WAN optimisation. Accurate response time data is essential to ensuring WAN optimisation deployments are performing to full potential.
Current WAN optimisation technologies can obscure application response times through locally acknowledged TCP sessions, making it difficult to quantify the real benefits of a WAN optimisation deployment. NetQoS and Cisco have developed an end-to-end solution where application performance statistics are captured and reported from the end user to the data center.
Integrated in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices, the software will allow the accurate validation of WAN optimisation deployments. “This is a significant advancement in the WAN optimisation space, no other WAN optimization solution offers this,” said Dr. Cathy Fulton, NetQoS CTO.
The partnership with Cisco will be a boon for NetQos, whose current customers include Chevron, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Hilton Hotels, Siemens, Boeing, and NASA.