"After extensive evaluation of other solutions we selected Riverbed over the competition. The Steelhead appliance was able to optimize all of our important applications and delivered the best performance over our global Cisco network. It was also the easiest to deploy and manage."
− Bob Czukkermann, Supervisor of Server Infrastructure, Liz Claiborne Inc.
Steelhead appliances enable wide-area data services (WDS) for enterprises of all sizes. These appliances make it easy for organizations to accelerate the applications that are most important to their users, anywhere in the world. Steelhead appliances are available in a range of sizes to meet the needs of any remote office – from small sales offices with just a few people, to major design centers and corporate facilities with thousands of employees.
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 deploying Steelhead appliances, enterprises see from 5 to 50 times, and in some cases up to 100 times faster application performance, as well as reduced bandwidth utilization. They can ensure faster applications, successful consolidation of distributed IT infrastructure, and enable faster network-based backup. All Steelhead appliances optimize traffic in both directions, transparent to your applications, and require no reconfiguration to client and server software.
Steelhead Appliance Features
Accelerate the Applications that are the Most Important to You
Transparent Deployment in 15 Minutes or Less
Flexible Deployment, Reporting, and Management
Web GUI and CLI Management and Reporting
Highly Configurable, Flexible Deployment
Designed for Reliability and Availability
Steelhead appliances can be deployed in a variety of high-availability configurations in order to provide continued optimized performance in the event of an appliance failure. These configurations are available for both in-path and out-of-path deployments. Steelhead appliances also enable automated datastore copying, ensuring that failover devices have the most recent user data available.
In addition, Steelhead appliance models 3020 and up also feature RAID and triple power supplies to improve reliability.
"The Steelhead appliances performed better than the competition. They produced the fastest response times for the offerings tested and they supported more of our critical protocols. Riverbed also did a better job of reducing WAN traffic. Finally, the Steelhead appliances were the easiest to manage, which is a critical component to a successful global deployment as large as ours."
− Kang-Seok Chung, Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure Group, LG Electronics
