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Data Sheet

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a scalable, high-performance WAN

optimization solution that can improve the end-user quality of experience, providing

user or employee time savings and increased velocity of business functions and

transactions like backup, disaster recovery, and retail commerce.

Product overview

Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)—for both enterprises and service providers—is a WAN optimization

solution that accelerates business applications delivered from the branch office to the data center and to private

and virtual-private-cloud infrastructures. It delivers the next generation of WAN and application acceleration and

helps businesses mitigate poor application performance and deliver high-quality digital experiences on a variety of

platforms and form factors in a broad range of offerings including physical appliance, virtual appliance, and router-

integrated software.

Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) provides WAN optimization with intent-based dynamic path control to

optimize network and application performance by selecting the most efficient WAN links on an application-by-

application basis, helping avoid latency and bottleneck concerns. SD-WAN, however, cannot overcome the

inevitable problems caused by latency and geographic distances. To ensure user quality of experience and

productivity, WAN optimization and application acceleration are important features to both enterprise and service

provider customers, and by adding Cisco WAAS to SD-WAN deployments you can address those concerns by

adding caching, compression, and application optimization.

With or without SD-WAN, Cisco WAAS provides application acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities to

branch offices, data centers, public and private clouds, and users to achieve application delivery performance

similar to that of a LAN. Enterprises and service providers can save money and time, and lower costs with reduced

bandwidth requirements and increased user efficiency by alleviating the effects of WAN latency and distance

between branch offices, data centers, and the cloud.

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Features and benefits

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of Cisco WAAS.

Table 1. Features and benefits of Cisco WAAS

Benefits Features

Save costs and minimize unnecessary WAN bandwidth consumption

● Transport Flow Optimization (TFO) improves application packet flow under unfavorable WAN conditions such as packet loss and small initial windows while helping ensure fairness.

● Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE) and network compression using a bidirectional database to store previously seen TCP traffic and replace redundant patterns with very small signatures provide up to 100:1 compression depending on the data being examined.

● Adaptive, persistent, session-based compression can provide up to an additional 5:1 compression.

Improve user productivity and quality of experience by reducing effects of latency and optimizing applications

● Protocol acceleration: Application-specific latency is reduced through a variety of application-layer techniques such as read-ahead, operation prediction, connection reuse, message multiplexing, pipelining, and parallelization, resulting in LAN-like performance despite deployment over a WAN.

● Application optimizers: Protocol-specific acceleration is available for Microsoft Windows file sharing (Server Message Block [SMB]); Microsoft Exchange (Messaging API [MAPI] and MAPI over Secure Sockets Layer [SSL]); Encrypted MAPI (EMAPI); HTTP; and Secure HTTP (HTTPS) applications such as Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access (OWA); Microsoft Windows print services; UNIX Network File System (NFS); and Citrix ICA. These features improve end-user application response times, significantly improving employee productivity.

● Content prepositioning: You can use centralized policy-based file distribution and prepositioning to push files to edge virtual WAAS (vWAAS) devices, accelerating software patch distribution and file access for all users.

● Cloud-based optimization through the Akamai Intelligent Platform can be obtained by adding Akamai Connect licensing to licensing when ordering.

Deploy and manage services quickly, with flexibility and agility

● Virtual Central Manager (vCM): This workflow-based software tool manages central configuration, provisioning, real-time monitoring, fault management, logging, and customized reporting with the capability to create scheduled reports.

● Comprehensive statistics: Comprehensive logs, reports, graphs, and statistics for Cisco vWAAS functions help IT administrators optimize system performance and troubleshooting.

● Monitoring, reporting, traps, and alerts: Real-time monitoring of connections, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Versions 2c and 3, Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) authentication, and syslog are supported.

● Centralized software upgrades: Administrators can remotely schedule upgrades or version rollbacks.

● Application performance management: Obtain accurate reports about end-to-end application response time and WAN bandwidth usage.

● XML Application Programming Interface (API): You can use the XML API to integrate WAAS Central Manager into customers' network management and monitoring systems.

Scalability and high availability

● Out-of-path deployment: You can deploy WAAS using Web Cache Communication Protocol Version 2 (WCCPv2) for high-availability clustering and N + 1 load balancing for up to 32 WAAS devices within a WCCPv2 service group. Cisco Policy-Based Routing (PBR) is also supported as a deployment mechanism.

● Configuration backup and restore: If hardware failure occurs, the re-provisioning and restore process can be handled remotely using WAAS Central Manager.

● Redundant WAN link support: WAAS supports environments with redundant WAN links, redundant routers, and asymmetric routing to improve high availability and optimization efficiency.

● Cisco AppNav-XE technology: AppNav-XE helps you virtualize WAN optimization resources by pooling them into one elastic resource in a manner that is policy-based and on demand, with exceptionally low-latency performance.

Security ● Data-at-rest encryption: All data is secured with 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and automatic key management.

● Data-in-flight security: Cisco firewalls perform stateful inspection of accelerated traffic.

● Acceleration of SSL applications: Existing enterprise security architecture is preserved when accelerating SSL applications.

● Data access security: All security-related protocol commands are delegated to the file server and the domain controller. No additional domain security or user configuration is necessary.

● Management access security: The WAAS Central Manager offers Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) integration with external authentication providers such as Microsoft Active Directory, RADIUS, and TACACS+, and it supports Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to help ensure security.

● Network security: WAAS and Cisco firewalls secure accelerated traffic with stateful firewall inspection and network virus scanning using Cisco IOS

® Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). No other vendor currently

preserves security for accelerated traffic.

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Cisco WAAS in the multicloud environment

Enterprises want to migrate their business applications to the cloud while reducing the negative effect on

performance of cloud-based application delivery to end users. As a result, they are increasingly adopting

virtualization and cloud computing. However, they face several challenges in migrating applications to the cloud,

with application performance being often cited as one of the main concerns.

Cisco WAAS supports WAN optimization in a cloud environment where physical devices cannot be deployed. In

private and virtual-private-cloud environments, use WAAS to create value-added WAN optimization services on a

per-application basis, for optimized delivery to remote branch-office users. Associate WAAS services with

application server virtual machines as they are moved in response to dynamic load demand in the cloud to offer

rapid delivery of WAN optimization services, with minimal network configuration or disruption.

Cisco WAAS accelerates Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, such as Salesforce.com or Office 365

delivered from the public SaaS cloud. SaaS applications are typically HTTPS-based and can be configured in an

easy and scalable manner to accelerate access to hosted Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications delivered

from public cloud platforms and connected to private networks. Today WAAS is supported in the Microsoft Azure

cloud with support for Amazon Web Services and Google cloud planned.

AppNav-XE integrated into Cisco IOS XE Software

An important feature for WAAS is AppNav-XE, which helps provide flexible scale-out of WAAS deployments and

intent-based networking configuration. This Cisco IOS XE Software-based feature enables you to associate WAAS

services with application servers as they are instantiated or moved in response to dynamic application load

demand in the cloud. This feature provides the ability to direct WAN optimization on an application-by-application

basis, and also enables you to make changes or expand WAAS services quickly, elastically, and on demand. You

can add capacity or dedicate capacity to specific applications or geographies based on business requirements,

with no change to existing network configurations or topologies.

Akamai Connect

Cisco WAAS has partnered with Akamai for the Akamai Connect feature. By combining the power of Cisco WAAS

with Akamai caching and Internet optimization technology, the solution enables branch offices to offload existing

network links and further improve in-branch web and application experiences. Akamai Connect enhances WAAS

by caching and delivering most rich media traffic from inside the branch office, allowing you to dramatically improve

performance, while offloading traffic from the WAN and last-mile access network. You can add the Akamai Connect

feature to WAAS when ordering.

For more information, please visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/intelligent-wan-

akamai/index.html.

Platform support

The following platforms are supported:

For the branch office:

● Cisco 5400 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS)

● Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISRs)

● Cisco Unified Computing System™

(Cisco UCS®) E-Series Servers

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For the data center and private cloud:

● Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)

● Cisco Cloud Service Platform (CSP) 2100 Series

● Other x86-based computing systems (performance will vary depending on system)

In the public cloud:

● Microsoft Azure Cloud

Cisco ENCS 5400-W Series hardware

The Cisco ENCS 5400-W product line was built as a WAAS hardware platform for the branch office managed by

the Cisco Virtual Central Manager (vCM) tool with no interaction with any hypervisor required.

You also can deploy Cisco WAAS as a separate Virtual Network Function (VNF) on the ENCS 5000 Series with the

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) hypervisor.

Router-integrated WAAS

With the Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) for Cisco WAAS services, you have two options

depending on requirements as follows:

● Cisco 4000 Series ISRs with ISR WAAS running in a Cisco IOS XE Software container

● Cisco vWAAS on Cisco UCS E-Series Server: Use the Cisco UCS E-Series Server module in the 4000

Series ISR with any of the hypervisors listed in the next section.

Cisco Virtual WAAS and supported hypervisors

Cisco Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) software runs on x86 compute environments and can be deployed in the enterprise

branch office, data center, in public or private clouds, and in virtual private clouds offered by service providers.

vWAAS supports the following hypervisors:

● VMware vSphere ESXi

● Microsoft HyperV

● RHEL KVM

● KVM on CentOS

● Cisco Enterprise NFVIS

● Cisco ISR WAAS

Centralized management and orchestration

Cisco WAAS instances and the Cisco ENCS 5400-W Series are managed by the Cisco Virtual Central Manager

(vCM), which is a workflow-based software tool that manages central configuration, provisioning, real-time

monitoring, fault management, logging, and customized reporting with the capability to create scheduled reports for

WAAS, vWAAS, and ISR WAAS.

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Cisco DNA Center, a complete software-based network automation and assurance solution, is the dashboard for

control and management of Cisco’s intent-based networking system. Cisco DNA Center reduces complexity by

supporting Cisco validated topology designs for virtual functions to help ensure that connectivity results in a

working branch-office network. Automation of service chaining prevents manual service chaining errors and time

required to troubleshoot connectivity problems. For more information about Cisco DNA Center, please visit:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/dna-center/index.html.

Licensing

You can order Cisco WAAS in several ways, including ENCS 5000-W Series physical WAAS appliances, ISR

4000-AX Series router-integrated ISR WAAS, vWAAS on the Cisco UCS E-Series module for the 4000 Series

ISRs, vWAAS as standalone license for Cisco UCS and x86 based servers, and as a part of the Azure

Marketplace. You can also order Cisco Central Manager for WAAS separately. Details follow.

a) Cisco ENCS 5000-W Series

Cisco WAAS bundled with the ENCS 5400-W platforms

ENCS 5400 model Supported vWAAS Models Connection Size

ENCS-5406-W vWAAS 200 or vWAAS-750 200 or 750 connections

ENCS-5408-W vWAAS-1300 1300 connections

ENCS-5412-W vWAAS-2500 or vWAAS-6000 2500 or 6000 connections

The Cisco ENCS 5400-W Series is completely managed by the WAAS Central Manager, and there is no

interaction with the underlying hypervisor (NFVIS) as there is with other ENCS 5000 Series platforms.

b) Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers

Several options for 4000 Series router-based WAAS follow:

b.1) Router-integrated ISR WAAS on the Cisco 4000-AX Series ISRs

The Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Router Family includes the Cisco 4451-X-AX, 4431-AX, 4351-AX,

4331-AX, and 4321-AX routers. Each Cisco 4000-AX bundle includes licenses for IP Base, Security (SEC),

Application Experience (AppX), and Right To Use (RTU) for Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). Cisco

4000-AXV bundles also include licenses for Unified Communications (UC) and Cisco Unified Border Element.

b.2) Cisco WAAS on the Cisco 4000 and 4000-AX Series ISRs with optional Cisco UCS-E Series module

The Cisco UCS-E Series module can run vWAAS licenses as an option to ISR WAAS on the 4000 Series

ISRs. The 4000-AX ISR bundles include a Right-To-Use (RTU) license for WAAS that you can apply to

vWAAS on the Cisco UCS-E module, or you can purchase vWAAS separately as a separate or standalone

license for vWAAS (refer to section c).

b.3) Cisco WAAS included with APP licensing for 4000 Series ISRs

Separately order the Application Experience (AX) license with WAAS RTU for your 4000 Series router; for

example, SL-4xxx-APP-K9.

For information about licensing and WAAS system requirements for all of the licenses listed previously for the 4000

Series ISRs, please visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/3900-series-integrated-

services-routers-isr/guide_c07-726864.html.

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c) Cisco Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) as separate or standalone license

For vWAAS ordered as a as standalone license:

Supported vWAAS Models Optimized Connections

vWAAS 200 200 connections

vWAAS-750 750 connections

vWAAS-1300 1300 connections

vWAAS-2500 2500 connections

vWAAS-6000 6000 connections

vWAAS-12000 12000 connections

vWAAS-50000 50000 connections

vWAAS-150000 150000 connections

d) Cisco WAAS at Microsoft Azure marketplace:

For information about vWAAS is a part of the Azure marketplace, please visit:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/cisco.cisco-waas-solutions?tab=Overview.

e) Cisco Virtual Central Manager (vCM) is licensed as follows:

Supported vCM Models Supported Nodes

vCM-100 100 Nodes

vCM-500 500 Nodes

vCM-1000 1000 Nodes

vCM-2000 2000 Nodes

Cisco ENCS 5400-W Series product specifications

Customers can run WAAS in appliance mode on the ENCS 5400 platform (refer to figure 1)

Figure 1. Cisco 5400-W Enterprise Network Compute System for WAAS – Front and back

The Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System -WAVE (ENCS 5400-W) is a line of compute appliances designed

to improve employee productivity by enhancing the user experience for important business applications delivered

over the WAN. The Cisco 5400-W consists of three models: the 5412-W, 5408-W, and 5406-W summarized in

table 5 below.

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Benefits include the following:

● Reduce the cost of branch-office operations by centralizing IT resources in the data center and lowering the

cost of WAN bandwidth.

● Deliver enterprise-class video while reducing WAN bandwidth consumption with the Cisco WAAS and

Akamai Connect application optimizer.

● Increase IT agility by reducing the time and resources needed to deliver new IT services to the branch

office.

● Simplify branch-office data protection for regulatory compliance purposes.

● Flexible deployment models including AppNav XE, Policy Based Routing (PBR), and Web Cache

Communication Protocol (WCCP) for high performance, scalability, and network availability.

● High performance for video, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and cloud applications as well as traditional

enterprise applications; using context-aware Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE), Cisco ENCS 5400-W

appliances can adapt caching behavior on the basis of the characteristics of individual applications,

resulting in higher throughput and lower application latency.

● Built-in lights-out management is also supported with Cisco Integrated Management Controller on certain

models.

Table 2 summarizes the main features of the Cisco ENCS-W (WAVE) appliances.

Table 2. Cisco ENCS-5400-W (WAVE) Series Appliances

Platform Deployment Scenarios and Features

Cisco ENCS-5406-W Wide Area Virtualization Engine ● Excellent for edge deployments at small branch and remote offices

● Supports up to 200 TCP connections (upgradable to 750)

● Offers a 960-GB HDD data storage option

● Has 2 onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports

Cisco ENCS-5408-W Wide Area Virtualization Engine ● Excellent for edge deployments at small and medium-sized branch offices

● Supports up to 1300 TCP connections (upgradable to 2500)

● Offers a 960-GB HDD data storage option

● Has 2 onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports

Cisco ENCS-5412-W Wide Area Virtualization Engine ● Excellent for edge deployments at large enterprise branch offices

● Excellent for core deployments at small data centers

● Supports up to 6000 TCP connections

● Offers a 960-GB HDD data storage option

● Has 2 onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports

For details and specifications for ENCS 5400 Series, refer to:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/5400-enterprise-network-compute-system/datasheet-c78-

738512.html.

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Virtual WAAS product specifications

Table 3 gives vWAAS specifications.

Table 3. vWAAS specifications

Cisco vWAAS license

vWAAS-150

vWAAS-200

vWAAS-750

vWAAS-1300

vWAAS-2500

vWAAS-6000

vWAAS-12000

vWAAS-50000

vWAAS-150000

Virtual WAAS on VMware ESXi

Optimized TCP Connections

[1]

150 200 750 1300 2500 6000 12000 50000 150000

Target WAN Bandwidth (Mbps)

[2]

15 20 50 150 150 200 350 450 400

Optimized LAN Throughput (Mbps)

[3]

75 300 500 700 750 850 1600 3000 5000

For best performance use the recommended hardware specified in techzone page:

https://techzone.cisco.com/t5/WAAS-Appliances-vWAAS/BOM-recommendations-for-specific-vWAAS-models/ta-

p/1179584

Cisco vWAAS system requirements

Table 4 lists vWAAS system requirements.

Table 4. Cisco vWAAS System Requirements

WAAS Model CPU Minimum CPU Clock Speed

Memory Disk Storage Minimum Recommended Platform

vWAAS-150 2 CPUs 1.7 GHz 4 GB 160 GB UCS-E120E

vWAAS-200 2 CPUs 1.8 GHz 4 GB 260 GB UCS-E140S

vWAAS-750 4 CPUs 1.9 GHz 8 GB 500 GB UCS-E140S

vWAAS-1300 4 CPUs 2.0 GHz 12 GB 600 GB UCS-E160S

vWAAS-2500 6 CPUs 1.9 GHz 16 GB 750 GB UCS-E160S

vWAAS-6000 8 CPUs 2.0 GHz 24 GB 900 GB UCS-E180D

vWAAS-6000R 8 CPUs 2.0 GHz 24 GB 875 GB UCS-E180D

vWAAS-12000 12 CPUs 2.6 GHz 48 GB 750 GB UCS-C220 or UCS-C240

vWAAS-50000 16 CPUs 2.6 GHz 72 GB 1500 GB UCS-C220 or UCS-C240

vWAAS-150000 24 CPUs 2.6 GHz 96 GB 3800 GB UCS-C240

Note: Requirements and connections listed in Table 3 will vary depending on hypervisor and computing system

hardware.

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Cisco Virtual Central Manager system requirements

Table 5 lists Virtual Central Management tool requirements.

Table 5. Cisco Virtual Central Manager system requirements

vCM Model Default Number of vCPUs

Recommended Number of vCPUs

Default Memory Recommended Memory

Disk Storage Managed Nodes

vCM-100 2 2 2 GB 2 GB 250 GB 100

vCM-500 2 4 2 GB 5 GB 300 GB 500

vCM-1000 2 6 4 GB 8 GB 400 GB 1000

vCM-2000 4 8 8 GB 16 GB 600 GB 2000

Router Integrated WAAS

Table 6 lists the system requirements for ISR WAAS running on ISR 4000 Series routers

Table 6. ISR 4000 Series Integrated Services Router System Requirements for ISR WAAS

ISR-WAAS Model CPUs Memory Disk Storage Supported ISR Platform

ISR-WAAS-200 (for WAAS 5.x and 6.2.1)

1 3 GB 151 GB ISR-4321

ISR-WAAS-200 (for WAAS 6.2.3x and later

1 4 GB 151 GB ISR-4321

ISR-WAAS-750 2 4 GB 151 GB ISR-4351, ISR-4331, ISR-4431, ISR-4451

ISR-WAAS-1300 4 6 GB 151 GB ISR-4431, ISR-4451

ISR-WAAS-2500 6 8 GB 338 GB ISR-4451

For more information on WAAS system requirements for the ISR 4000 Series, see:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/3900-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/guide_c07-

726864.html.

For the system requirements for the 4000 Series ISRs running either ISR WAAS or vWAAS on the Cisco UCS E-

Series module system requirements, please visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/3900-

series-integrated-services-routers-isr/guide_c07-726864.html.

Notes:

1) TCP connection requirements vary by application; some applications consume multiple TCP connection

resources for WAAS optimization.

ENCS-54xx-W System Specifications

ENCS-54xx-W System Specifications are shown in table 7.

Table 7. Specifications for the Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System – WAVE (ENCS-W)

Technical

Specifications

Cisco 5400 ENCS

CPU Intel Xeon Broadwell DE Processor D-1500 Family

● ENCS5412: Intel Xeon Processor D-1557 (12-core, 1.5 GHz, and 18 MB L2 cache)

● ENCS5408: Intel Xeon Processor D-1548 (8-core, 2.0 GHz, and 12 MB L2 cache)

● ENCS5406: Intel Xeon Processor D-1528 (6-core, 1.9 GHz, and 9 MB L2 cache)

DRAM ● 2 DIMM slots, each with 8, 16, or 32GB ECC DDR4 RAM

● 16 GB default single DIMM

● 64 GB maximum system capacity

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Technical

Specifications

Cisco 5400 ENCS

Motherboard storage M.2 SATA – 64 GB

Disk drives (SFF) ● SATA SSD eMLC: 960 GB

RAID options Optional hardware LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108 Controller

Total onboard WAN or LAN ports ● 2 GE WAN or LAN port (dual-mode RJ-45 and SFP)

NIM slots 1

OIR (all I/O modules) Yes

External USB 2.0 slots (type A) 1

Serial console port RJ-45 (up to 115.2 Kbps)

Power-supply options Single, internal: AC and PoE

PoE support is available on 5408 and 5412 Enterprise Network Compute System models only.

AC input voltage 100 to 240 VAC auto-ranging

AC input frequency 47 to 63 Hz

AC input current range, AC power supply (maximum)

3.8 to 1.3A

AC input surge current 60A peak and less than 5 arms per half cycle

Typical power (no modules) (Watts) 125W

Maximum power with AC power supply (Watts)

180W (no PoE)

Maximum power with PoE power supply (platform only; Watts)

380W with PoE

Total PoE budget 200W

Platform supports Universal PoE (60W maximum per LAN port)

Dimensions

(H x W x D)

1.73 x 17.25 x 13.3 in (includes power supply unit and NIM mounts)

(4.4 x 43.8 x 33.8 cm)

Shipping box dimensions

(H x W x D)

6.8 x 16.1 x 21.5 in

(17.3 x 40.9 x 54.6 cm)

Rack height 1 Rack Unit (1RU)

Rack-mount 19 in. (48.3 cm) EIA Optional

Rack-mount 23 in. (58.4 cm) EIA Optional

Wall mount Optional

Weight 13.0 lb (5.9 kg) without modules or external drives

Airflow I/O side to bezel side

Temperature 32° to 104°F (0° to 40°C)

Altitude

(China)

0–6560 ft.

(0–2000 m)

Altitude

(All worldwide locations except China)

0–10,000 ft.

(0–3050 m)

Relative humidity 10% to 90%

Short-term humidity 5% to 95%, not to exceed 0.024 kg water/kg of dry air

Acoustics:

Sound pressure (typical/maximum)

45.2/61 dBA

Acoustics:

Sound power (typical/maximum)

58.2/78.8 dBA

Non-operating temperature -4° to 158ºF (-20° to 70ºC)

Non-operating relative humidity 5% to 95%

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Technical

Specifications

Cisco 5400 ENCS

Non-operating altitude -1000 ft (-304 m) to 15,584 ft (4750 m)

Safety UL 60950-1

CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1

EN 60950-1

AS/NZS 60950-1

IEC 60950-1

EMC 47 CFR Part 15

KN 32

EN 55032

CISPR 32

EN61000-3-2

EN61000-3-3

EN 300 386

ICES-003

VCCI V3

TCVN 7189

CNS13438

CISPR24

EN55024

KN35

TCVN 7317

Telecom T1

IC CS-03:2004

TIA-968-B:2009

HKTA 2028:2010

HKTA 2017:2010

HKTA 2015: 2006

G.703:2001

ID0002:2007

IS6100:2004

DSPR Gray Book:2000

DSPR Technical Condition: 2004

E1

AS/ACIF S016: 2001

AS/ACIF S038: 2001

G.703:2001

TBR 4:1995

TBR 12:1993

TBR 13:1996

RRA 2009-38

(RRL 2005-96)

IDA TS DLCN:2011

IDA TS ISDN PRA:2005

IS6100: 2004

PTC 220:2008

Ethernet

IEEE 802.3

ANSA X3.263

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Ordering Information

Cisco WAAS is available; to order, please visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page.

To download software, visit the Cisco Software Central.

Warranty Information

Cisco WAAS and the ENCS-5400 Series product lines both have a 90-day limited liability warranty.

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