Steelhead appliances enable wide-area data services (WDS) for enterprises of all sizes. These appliances make it easy for organisations 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.

Steelhead appliances are built on an application-independent architecture that optimises all TCP traffic for bandwidth and TCP behavior. On top of this architecture, Riverbed has built a series of Application Streamlining modules that further optimise applications like Windows, Exchange, HTTP, NFS, and MS SQL.

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Key Features

• Accelerate the Applications that are the Most Important to You - Steelhead appliances are built on an application-independent architecture that optimises all TCP traffic for bandwidth and TCP behavior. On top of this architecture, Riverbed has built a series of Application Streamlining modules that further optimise applications like Windows, Exchange, HTTP, NFS, and MS SQL.
• Transparent Deployment in 15 Minutes or Less - Steelhead appliances do not require any client or server reconfiguration in standard deployment mode. Your applications will continue to work just as they did before the Steelhead appliances were deployed – only faster. There is no proxy configuration required, nor do any routing tables need to be adjusted.
• Web GUI and CLI Management and Reporting - Each Steelhead appliance can be managed through a rich GUI or command-line interface. This way, appliances can be set up, configured, and managed remotely. All Steelhead appliances can report traffic and network optimisation, and segment reports by port, protocol, or IP address range.
• Highly Configurable, Flexible Deployment - The default state for Steelhead appliances is to intercept and optimise all WAN traffic. However, administrators have the option to restrict or specify optimisation by protocol, port, or IP address range.
• Designed for Reliability and Availability - Steelhead appliances can be deployed in a variety of high-availability configurations in order to provide continued optimised 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.