Michael Leonard

Cisco Systems' Next Move: Managed Services

Joe, good article. You are right about Cisco emphasizing WAAS. In fact we had major news for WAAS with an announcement on Nov. 18 in the linked PR below where 7 Service Providers announced their managed WAN Optimization based on Cisco WAAS. WAN Optimization is a fast growing managed service opportunity and Cisco WAAS is being deployed by most of the major MSPs with 9 having announced their service so far. We are finding that customers see a managed service as a good way to save capital while also leveraging the service providers expertise to roll out WAN Optimization quickly.

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