The Cisco WAE-612 Wide Area Application Engine is designed to address the deployment needs at the edge in large enterprise branches and regional offices as well as core installations in medium-sized data centers. The Cisco WAE-612 offers greater performance, reliability and scale than the Cisco WAE-512. The Cisco WAE-612 includes a powerful dual-core processor, two hot swappable front-loadable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disks bays that can be configured with 300 GB hard disk drives using RAID-1 when using Cisco WAAS. Offered in a single rack-unit form factor for easy deployment, the base system includes 2 GB of RAM with options to upgrade to 4GB of RAM for greater performance and scale.