Compare F5 Traffic Management Operating System vs. WAAS
F5 Traffic Management Operating System is ranked 11th in WAN Optimization while WAAS is ranked 8th in WAN Optimization. F5 Traffic Management Operating System is rated 0, while WAAS is rated 0. On the other hand, F5 Traffic Management Operating System is most compared with NetScaler SD-WAN, Blue Coat Encrypted Traffic Management and Riverbed Steelhead, whereas WAAS is most compared with Riverbed Steelhead, NetScaler SD-WAN and Fortinet FortiWAN.
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| Traffic Management Operating System | |
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| F5 | Cisco |
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| F5 Traffic Management Operating System, a collection of real-time features and functions, purpose-built and designed as a full-proxy solution with the power and performance. F5 TMOS is a self-contained, real-time operating system that is the brain behind BIG-IP. Developed as the foundation for all of F5 products, each component within the system performs operations and then lets the next component run, greatly reducing the overhead of CPU scheduling. | Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a software- and hardware-integrated, WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, and part of Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN). Cisco WAAS reduces latency and optimizes bandwidth. (4:46 min). Cisco WAAS provides an elastic "scale as you grow" enterprise-wide deployment model with Cisco AppNav and industry-leading scalability for secure acceleration of email, file, web, software-as-a-service (SaaS), video, and VDI applications. Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect optimizes web and mobile applications by extending the Akamai Intelligent Platform directly into the branch. |
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| TransUnion | Dimension Data, National Rugby League |
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