Whether it be, corporate headquarters, or your data centers, or any type of large offices the Steelhead Larger models deliver even greater capacity, plus the redundancy needed in a mission-critical technology.
Optional multi-port Ethernet cardsallow integration into multi-link or redundant WAN configurations. Clustering with the Interceptor appliance provides additional failover or scaling in extremely large deployments, making sure that Steelhead appliances always scale up to satisfy your application acceleration needs.
Steelhead appliances are equpied with RAID, triple power supplies, and hot-swappable disk to ensure maximum uptime and rock-solid hardware reliability.
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™)
RiOS software powers Steelhead products through a combination of patent-pending data reduction, TCP optimization, and application-level protocol optimizations. Together, these technologies, along with RiOS management capabilities, provide a comprehensive solution for enterprise WAN optimization. RiOS consists of four key components :
Data streamlining – RiOS data streamlining works across all TCP applications to reduce bandwidth utilization, typically by 60% to 95%. Data streamlining works across file sharing (including Windows and NFS), email (including MS Exchange and Lotus Notes), CAD, ERP, web-based HTTP and HTTPS applications, data¬bases (including Oracle), virtual desktops (including Citrix and VMware), and all other applications that use TCP.
Transport streamlining – RiOS transport streamlining reduces the number of TCP packets required to transfer data by 65% to 98%. Transport streamlining also enables the acceleration of SSL-encrypted traffic throughout the enterprise to eliminate the security and performance trade-off. With HS-TCP and MX-TCP, RiOS can enable greater utilization of high bandwidth links (ie. long fat networks (LFN) such as OC3, OC12, metrofiber).
