Riverbed

Riverbed Products Overview

Both Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile software allow wide-area data services (WDS) for companies of any size. These devices offer a simple solution for organizations who need to speed up the applications that are most important to their users, anywhere in the world. Steelhead appliances come in a wide range of sizes to satisfy the requirements of any remote office. Whether it be a small sales office with just a few workers, or major design centers and corporate facilities with thousands of employees. Steelhead Mobile software enables workers on the move to enjoy LAN-like access to files and applications whether they are working from home, on the road, or even at customer sites.

Every Steelhead appliance comes with the full power of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS):

• Data Streamlining optimizes all WAN traffic by removing all redundant data and prioritizing traffic through advanced QoS mechanisms
• Transport Streamlining improves the behavior of TCP
• Application Streamlining reduces application protocol inefficiencies and enables disconnected operations
• Management Streamlining simplifies the deployment, maintenance, and management of the appliances.

By employing Steelhead appliances and software, companies can speed up application performance from 5 to 50 times – and in some cases up to 100 times while at the same time reducing bandwidth. Steelhead appliances and software can provide more responsive applications, successful consolidation of distributed IT infrastructure, and allow for expedited network-based backup and replication.

The Steelhead product family maximises traffic in both directions, transparent to your applications, and theres no need for reconfiguration to client and server software. All Steelhead products are designed for simple integration into your existing network, with no modifications to routers or servers, and ultimate compatibility with existing QoS and VoIP implementations.

Main Advantages of the Steelhead Product Family - Accelerate the Applications that are the Most Important to You

Specifically designed products to deliver the best possible acceleration for the widest range of enterprise applications. This means that workers throughout your organization can see radical and immediate benefits from the Steelhead product family. The Steelhead family is built on an application-independent architecture that maximises all TCP traffic for bandwidth utilization and TCP behavior. Also, Riverbed has built a series of Application Streamlining modules that further optimize applications like Windows, Exchange, HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, and MS SQL.

In the recent Forrester WAVE report, Forrester declared that Riverbed "is the clear leader" in this market. Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant on this space also puts Riverbed in the leader's quadrant, with the most complete vision and the highest ability to execute. In fact, most analysts note that Riverbed has the most complete strategy for wide-area data services and application acceleration.

With Riverbed, you can assure that your organization has the most efficient, widely used, and most technically progressive solution for accelerating applications over the WAN.

Transparent Deployment in 15 Minutes or Less

Steelhead applications do not require the need for reconfiguration to client and server software. Steelhead Mobile software simply needs a small software package to be installed on end users' laptops or desktops. Their applications will carry on working just as they did before the Steelhead appliances were installed, only faster. There is no proxy configuration required, nor do any routing tables need to be adjusted.

Riverbed has architected its products to be deployed fast and simply, normally in just ten to fifteen minutes. The appliances can be pre-configured at the factory to your special desires. Then when your appliance arrives you simply plug your new Steelhead appliance into the network. Once deployed, Steelhead appliances can use auto-discovery to automatically find all the other Steelhead appliances on the network. This means no tedious tunnel configurations often required by other products.

Steelhead Mobile software can simply spread out from your data center to individual machines, simplifying setup and avoiding complicated end-user setup requirements.

Flexible Deployment, Management and Reporting

Web GUI and CLI Management and Reporting

Each Steelhead appliance and Steelhead Mobile client are managed through a rich GUI or command-line interface. This allows remote configuration and management across the organization. All Steelhead appliances can report traffic and network optimization, and segment reports by port, protocol, or IP address range. Steelhead Mobile reporting provides statistics down to an individual user in terms of performance, health and issues.

Enterprises can also deploy the optional Central Management Console (CMC), which enables you to configure and manage multiple Steelhead appliances at the same time. The CMC provides device grouping features, dynamic reporting, scheduled operations, over-the-wire software upgrades, and automatic seamless setup of new Steelhead appliances in your network.

Highly Configurable, Flexible Deployment

The default state for Steelhead appliances is to intercept and optimize all WAN traffic. Although, administrators have the choice to restrict or specify optimization by protocol, port, or IP address range. Steelhead appliances can be used in virtually all network topologies. They can be deployed in-path, out-of-path, in various high-availability configurations, near specific servers, or virtually anywhere that meets your requirements. Steelhead Mobile software scales to all of your mobile workers simply, and also provides easy and flexible configuration policies to help manage performance, including optimization policies and data store size.

Made for Reliability and Availability

Steelhead appliances can be used in a wide range of high-availability configurations to deliver continued optimized performance in the event of an appliance failure. These configurations are good for both in-path and out-of-path deployments. Steelhead appliances also allow automated datastore copying, making sure that failover devices have the most up-to-date user data available.

Also, Steelhead appliance models 3020 and up also feature RAID and triple power supplies to enhance reliability.

Products:

• STEELHEAD APPLIANCE MODELS
• STEELHEAD MOBILE
• INTERCEPTOR
• CENTRAL MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (CMC)
• NETWORK INTEGRATION
• COMPARE RIVERBED
• TECHNOLOGY

Datasheets:

• Steelhead Family of Products

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