Riverbed Transparency and Ease of Use

Transparency and Ease of Use

The main reason for the broadly adopted Riverbed wide-area data services (WDS) solution is that it is the most simple to deploy and manage. This is a transparent approach to your existing network infrastructure. Other solutions tend to focus on the issue of network address transparency, while Riverbed focuses on the issues of usability, deployability, and manageability.

Also, Riverbed is the only WDS vendor that dleivers multiple network address visibility modes which allows customers to choose which mode is right for their deployment: Correct Addressing (default mode), Correct Addressing + Port Visibility, Full IP Address and Port Visibility.

Utilizing this solution, Riverbed has been able to create an amazingly flexible integration path that is coherent with any routing infrastructure, any IP transport mechanism, and is completely cross-functional with existing Quality of Service (QoS) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) implementations.

When customers talk about transparency and application acceleration devices what they are really talking about is a number of different feature sets at once:

• User transparency: Do I need to change anything on client machines to achieve application acceleration? Do I have to change user behavior?
• Deployment transparency: Do I have to change anything in my network to deploy this product? Will I have to configure tunnels? Set up additional switching or modify my routers? Change how I manage QoS?
• Visibility: Will I be able to report on traffic both on my LAN and my WAN once this product is in place?
• Port transparency: Will I have to change the ports used to transmit data over the WAN?
• Address transparency: Will I retain visibility to client and server IP addresses? If so, what are the impacts on my network?

Riverbed allows IT managers to use a WDS solution to branch offices and mobile workers within 15 minutes or less. It works by eliminating much of the tedious configuration needed by other solutions, and also eliminating the need to reconfigure other components of the IT infrastructure.

The concluding result is faster, more reliable acceleration of applications with no workflow changes to end-users and minimal changes to IT processes.

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