Cisco Systems' Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) technology is a Strong Performer and placed just outside the Leaders category. Cisco's WAAS architecture provides the full suite of optimization techniques as well as the most advanced all-in-one branch office appliance available today. Moreover, it provides excellent transparency and management tools to painlessly integrate with your network and minimize deployment costs. Companies that have already standardized on Cisco's ISR for branch routing can easily add WAN optimization modules.