[c-nsp] OT: Cisco WAAS Setup Scenario

[Felix Nkansah]

Thanks Andrew.
Your response is appreciated.


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Tolstykh, Andrew <
ATolstykh at integrysgroup.com> wrote:

> >>If the WAE at the head office accelerates traffic going to a spoke
> site
> >>without a WAE, would the traffic be dropped?
>
> No
>
> >>If the hub site receives non-accelerated traffic from spoke sites
> without
> >>WAE, would the head office WAE drop the traffic?
>
> No
>
> Cisco WAAS is also transparent in the sense that accelerator appliances
> can use auto-discovery to determine whether a peer accelerator is
> available at the other end of the link. After auto-discovery, a pair of
> accelerators can auto-negotiate an acceleration policy to be applied to
> the application flow. If a peer accelerator is not discovered, the
> application flow passes through unchanged.
>
> HTH,
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Felix Nkansah
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:43 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] OT: Cisco WAAS Setup Scenario
>
> Hi Team,
> Pardon me for the OT.
>
> I want to deploy Cisco WAAS as a proof of concept to a client with
> several
> sites connected in a hub-n-spoke topology.
>
> I would deploy only one WAE (and a CM) at the hub/head office and one
> WAE at
> a selected spoke, in production.
>
> I intend on setting the WAEs Inline for simplicity. However, I have some
> doubts that I hope you could help clear.
>
> If the WAE at the head office accelerates traffic going to a spoke site
> without a WAE, would the traffic be dropped?
>
> If the hub site receives non-accelerated traffic from spoke sites
> without
> WAE, would the head office WAE drop the traffic?
>
> I am concerned because I know the acceleration process utilizes
> compression
> schemes which may require decompression at the other site by a WAE.
>
> Labbing this up would give me the answers, but I felt I could leverage
> your
> skills for quick answers to these :-)
>
> Your responses are appreciated.
>
> Felix
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