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Network Integration

Architected to accelerate the applications your organization cares the most about, the Steelhead appliances do it in a way that means its easy to integrate into your network. The appliances are designed to be transparent to your existing network infrastructure, but at the same time giving the flexibility to configure them in a number of different ways to suit your requirements.

Truly Transparent Deployment

Steelhead appliances can be integrated without modifications to your servers, routers, applications, or user desktop's. The appliances can accelerate data and files without getting involved with your basic network infrastructure.

By supporting auto-discovery Steelhead appliances simplify the task of deploying and expanding network deployments. Auto-discovery enables any Steelhead appliance to automatically search for its peers in a network and start communicating with them. Steelhead appliances require no tedious tunnel configurations, eliminating tremendous amounts of IT management.

Works with any size WAN Connection

There is no upper or lower requirement to any particular WAN connection when using a Steelhead appliance. There only needs to be a persistent WAN connection available and a Steelhead appliance can accelerate applications across that connection. Steelhead appliances come in a wide range of sizes to meet the needs of your locations.

Simple Qualification for Regulated Environments

Steelhead appliances pass client requests to the origin server. Therefore there is no significant changes to the operation or security of your current application infrastructure. In highly regulated environments, this solution allows IT managers to quickly and simply qualify Steelhead appliances for utilization in their network environments.

Steelhead appliances also do not store complete files on disk. Data Streamlining technologies segment data and store it in an application-independent manner, making it it incomprehensible to the casual observer. Therefore, these appliances avoid introducing yet another device that needs strict auditing and control by IT management.

Thus, Steelhead appliances can significantly accelerate the process of backup and replication. By doing so, companies can perform regular backups across the WAN, accelerate data center replication, and even eliminate tape backup in remote offices. These accelerated backup processes can assist an organization exceed minimally acceptable practices mandated by the federal government, third party oversight, or even internal oversight committees.

Tested with MPLS Networks

MPLS is quickly gaining recognition as an effective upgrade to enterprise networks. Lower cost in, greater control over networks, and more detailed Quality-of-Services are some of the key user benefits. MPLS also delivers fully-meshed, any-to-any connectivity throughout offices and more flexibility in bandwidth provisioning.

Steelhead appliances have been successfully deployed across MPLS networks, and with Steelhead appliances there is no need for special configuration to work across an MPLS-enabled network, its also equiped features that make them more compatible to MPLS networks than other application acceleration solutions.

Steelhead appliances use auto-discovery to automatically search for and interact with all Steelhead peers on a network. Because of this capability, IT managers do not need to perform tedious tunnel configurations among appliances. If an enterprise needed to configure tunnels for a fully meshed network with 2,000 locations, they would be required to configure a minimum of 3,998,000 (2000 times 1999) tunnels. If the organization had many subnets per location, this number could increase by an order of magnitude. And if an organization wanted to add an additional location, a minimum of 2000 more tunnels would need to be configured. By enabling auto-discovery, Steelhead appliances make this tedious tunnel configuration unnecassary.

Works over Satellite

Similar to MPLS, using Steelhead appliances with satellite doesn't require any special configurations. Also, given the fact that satellite connections tend to have very high latency, enterprises may see significantly faster application performance. Steelhead appliances are currently accelerating applications via satellite to land locations with limited forms of alternative connectivity, offshore oil platforms, cargo ships, and even submarines.

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