>>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----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Felix Nkansah Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:43 PM To: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
