Technology News You Can Use - WAN Acceleration

Partnered with Tredent Data Systems, Riverbed is committed to providing the performance that enables you to get the most out of your IT infrastructure and application investment; regardless of whose routers or switches you’ve deployed, or which applications your users rely on from your branch offices.

By addressing the three main problems plaguing WANs (high latency, low bandwidth, and “chatty” protocols), Steelhead WDS appliances improve the throughput of the applications your users rely on every day – including file systems, email, backup, document management, custom applications, databases, CAD, Notes®, and FTP, as well as ERP and CRM solutions.

Riverbed's Steelhead appliances typically improve transmission speeds by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times. Steelhead appliances are not just focused on helping one or two applications: so all of your WAN traffic is optimized -- but no application is disrupted.

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.

These products have been tested and proven in the world’s largest networks and are simple to install and manage.

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Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances deliver unequaled overall WAN application performance from an appliance so easy to install that even your office manager can do it. With a little phone help from your IT staff, anyone in any remote office can quickly be up and running. Your investment in us is backed by a comprehensive portfolio of global support, training, and professional services options. Riverbed’s products have an easily quantifiable ROI for our customers. In fact, customers see payback on their investment from many different angles:

• Reduced capital expenditures on IT infrastructure
• Reduced and deferred bandwidth expenditures
• Increased productivity
• Enhanced collaboration
• Improved backup and replication
• More secure data

Steelhead appliances transparently optimize all WAN traffic using a software solution known as RiOS™ (the Riverbed Optimization System). RiOS intelligently integrates elements of storage, applications, and networks with its four key components:

Data streamlining

optimizes all WAN traffic, including UDP and TCP applications, to sharply reduce bandwidth consumption. It also includes advanced QoS mechanisms to prioritize packets and allocate bandwidth by application, taking into account both bandwidth requirements and latency sensitivity.

Transport streamlining

reduces the number of TCP packets typically by 65 to 98% and overcomes TCP limitations by adapting window scale, loss handling, congestion notification, and more. It also enables greater utilization of high bandwidth, high latency connections with high-speed TCP capabilities.

Application streamlining

reduces application protocol chattiness, providing massive throughput increases to applications including Windows file sharing, Exchange, Web, MS-SQL, NFS and UNIX-based applications.

Management streamlining

enables easy deployment through auto-discovery of peers and auto-interception of traffic, with no reconfigurations of clients, servers, or routers. For simpler ongoing management, RiOS provides powerful Web-based and command line interfaces for fine-grained reporting on all traffic, appliance configuration, and a central management console to manage large-scale deployments easily.

The power and simplicity of Steelhead appliances is no accident. From day one, these products were designed to respond to the concerns expressed by IT managers, and continuously rely on a global customer base to help guide its development team.

As the pioneer in WDS, Riverbed's solutions have an elegance that no mixture of independently-conceived, cobbled-together technologies can approach.

It's delivery of this vision has resulted in more customers and installed appliances than any of our competitors. Riverbed is uniquely positioned to leverage our real-world knowledge, customer experience and partner relationships to further develop and deliver breakthrough solutions.

If you need assistance or information that will help you make decisions about the future of your business network infrastructure feel free to ask one of our courteous and knowledgeable Network experts. Give us a call

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