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Internet Research Group Publishes
New Report
on Cisco’s WAAS Product Line
Los Altos,
Calif., October 2, 2006 –
Internet
Research Group (IRG) today announced its latest report on Wide Area
Networking (WAN) - “WAAS Up? Cisco Fleshes Out its WAN Offering.” The
report analyzes the potential impact that Cisco’s new WAAS (wide area
application services) appliance and blade offering will have on the WAN
acceleration market.
“This is a very important offering from Cisco
and is likely to be quite disruptive for the current market,” noted Peter
Christy, co-founder of IRG. “Cisco’s WAAS offering and Microsoft’s Branch
Office Initiative are two key vendor strategies to address the challenges of
modern application deployment. Interestingly, with the introduction of WAAS
Cisco is positioning the offering as potentially complementary to even
Microsoft, rather than as a direct competitor, a perspective that we think
makes sense.”
The study is available now. Tables of
contents can be found at
www.irg-intl.com. Vendors in the WAN sector include Akamai, Certeon,
Cisco, Citrix, Expand Networks, F5, Juniper, Microsoft, NetD, Netli,
Packeteer, Riverbed, SilverPeak, Stampede, Stratacache and Streamcore.
The study is available now. A table of
contents for this study can be downloaded by
clicking here.
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About Internet Research Group --
The Internet Research Group (IRG)
provides market research and market strategy services to product and service
vendors. IRG services combine the formidable and unique experience and
perspective of the two principals: John Katsaros and Peter Christy, each an
experienced industry veteran. The overarching mission of IRG is to help
clients make faster and better decisions about product strategy, market
entry, and market development. IRG is located in Los Altos, CA and can be
contacted by phone at 650-559-6222, via the Web at
www.irg-intl.com or via e-mail at
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com. Katsaros and Christy recently published a book
on these topics (Getting It Right the First Time – Praeger, 2005
www.gettingitrightthefirsttime.com ).
Editor’s note: Peter Christy is available to
provide background discussion, quotes or references for articles related to
network infrastructure and security.
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