The new Riverbed RiOS Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run additional services and applications in a protected partition on the Steelhead appliance. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy best-of-breed software at the edge without the need to deploy a full-blown server. This minimizes the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office enabling companies to consolidate IT even further, reducing costs and simplifying administration.

The RSP runs in a protected zone and does not impact the resource allocations dedicated to maintain peak Steelhead operations. Currently, modules for print (link) and video streaming (link) can be run on the RSP.
The benefits of the RiOS Services platform include:
