The Cisco WAVE WAVE-274 appliance is designed to offer investment protection by using their virtual blade capability to reduce the branch-office device footprint and rapidly deliver branch-office IT services while addressing core WAN optimization customer needs. Cisco WAVE appliances currently address small offices and branch offices. The Cisco WAVE platform supports Cisco WAAS Software Version 4.1. In addition to the benefits listed here, Cisco WAAS Software 4.1 makes WAN optimization easy to deploy while preserving existing network services; it adds application-specific acceleration, developed and validated in partnership with application vendors; it enables efficient delivery of video to the branch office without expensive bandwidth upgrades; and it supports local hosting of branch-office IT services on a single virtualized hardware platform such as Cisco WAVE.