Riverbed RIOS 3.0 Recap

RIOS 3.0 Recap

New Larger Steelhead Models

Riverbed offers the highest scalability WAN acceleration products on the market.

With the release of five new models of Steelhead appliances (the 1520, 3020, 3520, 5520, and 6020) and the new Riverbed Interceptor 9200, Riverbed offers the most scalable variety WAN optimization appliances on the market.

Largest Single Model

The Steelhead 6020, supports up to 2xOC3 (310 Mbps) of optimized WAN traffic (and unlike some of our competitors, that performance is with our patented, award-winning Data Streamlining turned on (not idle). Other competitors sometimes cite their WAN optimization specs without their de-duplication features activated!).

Largest Clustered Option Deployment

Steelhead appliances now have the scalability of 4 Gbps of optimized WAN traffic and support up to 1,000,000 simultaneous TCP connections when utilizing the new Riverbed Interceptor. Riverbed provides both the most scalable cluster architecture, as well as the most scalable single appliance in the Steelhead 6020.

High Bandwidth Link Optimization

If you are optimizing very high bandwidth links (Long Fat Networks) but don't require to de-duplicate your traffic, you have the choice of turning off Data Streamlining and using our High Speed TCP feature on the 5520 or 6020. Then you'll get the benefit of up to 800 Mbps of throughput on a single Steelhead appliance.

Riverbed Interceptor™

The Riverbed Interceptor is perfect for very large scale data center implementations. The Interceptor is utilized in front of a rack of Steelhead appliances, and gives out TCP connections among them while handling any desired connection forwarding. The Interceptor is the easiest way to deploy many Steelhead appliances in the data center and also has the greatest scalability. The Interceptor is optional, but delivers you with a new approach to integrate Steelhead appliances into the largest and most complex enterprise networks without dealing with the complexities of WCCP or PBR. It supports up to 1,000,000 simultaneous TCP connections, and can aggregate up to 4 Gbps of optimized WAN traffic.

NFS Application Streamlining

Riverbed has extended its award winning Application Streamlining functionality to NFS, which will impressively improve the performance of UNIX file sharing over the WAN, giving UNIX users the same LAN-like experience over the WAN that it has been delivering to Windows users for two years.

Improved Performance for CIFS (Windows) File Sharing

Riverbed keeps striving to improve and extend its market-leading CIFS performance, which means faster throughput for a wider range of applications and use cases, even in complex multi-user applications.

QoS - Bandwidth and Latency Based Prioritization and Enforcement

Steelhead appliances now optimize all WAN traffic, including VOIP, live streaming video. With the flexibility to use QoS in Steelhead appliances if you require this, and you can not only enforce QoS through bandwidth allocation, but also by latency-sensitivity. Administrators can find traffic classes that are particularly sensitive to latency (like voice and video) and allocate them higher priority, which means threes no need to over-allocate bandwidth for these critical applications.

Asymmetric Route Detection

For complicated networks, the new asymmetric route detection feature can assist you with diagnosis cases where both ends of a connection are physically disparate. RiOS will let you know that there is an asymmetric route, and then pass through traffic. Therefore, you'll be able to turn on Riverbed's connection forwarding features to seamlessly integrate into the asymmetrically routed links.

Client-Side Connection Forwarding

Building on the already existing server-side connection forwarding feature, it's now enabled on the client side of the WAN.

NetFlow Export

RiOS is now equipped with a NetFlow emitter which allows detailed information on top-talkers and listeners, and will present very detailed information about ports & applications. Now, client and server side IP addresses are preserved, giving you the fine grained visibility into your WAN traffic that you need.

"Agent-less" Pre-Population

Riverbed has enhanced the way pre-population works to get rid of the "cold hit" problem with new content. Now, there are no agents required, and its possible to pre-populate content to the edge from Windows servers, Network Appliance filers, EMC storage and so forth.

Improvements to PFS (Proxy File Service)

PFS is key if you're worried about disconnected operations (continued access in the event of a WAN failure). With RiOS 3.0 there are improvements on the interface for PFS and simplified the deployment and operation of this great feature.

Improved Reporting and Visibility

RiOS 3.0 includes improved reports, more impressive charts, one second granularity and up to a year of archiving to deliver the ability to identify details and trends in your WAN traffic.

Port / Application Auto-Discovery

RiOS also includes port auto-discovery to automatically assign application names to the most common ports - if you use custom port assignments, adminstrators are enabled to assign names to specific ports.

Global Traffic Reporting

The Central Management Console (CMC), has the following features: global aggregated traffic reporting showing peak, average and 95th percentile traffic summaries, giving you a real time picture of your WAN traffic, and the degree to which Steelhead appliances are optimizing it.

Compatibility with Earlier Versions of RiOS

To allow for deployment of new 3.0 software in existing Steelhead environments, the RiOS 3.0 is compatible with Steelhead appliances running earlier versions of software from 2.1 and higher. The Riverbed Central Management Console running RiOS 3.0 also is compatible with hybrid environments running 2.1.x and 3.x software.

Summary - Faster, Simpler and More Scalable

Riverbed provides the quickest, easiest and most scalable WAN acceleration solutions on the market. In addition, offering the braodest range of products made for the smallest office with only a handful of people, all the way to enterprise-class solutions to support the world's largest enterprises.

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