Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to wide-area data services to improve and accelerate application performance across the wide-area network (WAN). Using WDS, IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network, enabling real-time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile workers all over the world.
Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WDS – the first comprehensive solution to a host of severe problems that plague enterprise applications operating across the WAN including:
- Poor application performance
- Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
- Difficulties in IT consolidation
- Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
- Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances provide the highest level of WAN performance across the broadest range of applications. Available in a wide range of sizes – all powered by the Riverbed Optimisation System (RiOS) – Steelhead appliances are also the most scalable approach to application acceleration across your WAN.
Steelhead appliances come in a range of sizes to ensure that each of your offices has a properly sized acceleration appliance. With this range of sizes, you can simultaneously ensure that the appliance provides room for office growth, yet still ensures that you achieve a quick return on investment.
Our Steelhead 100 is meant for offices with just a few people; our 6000-series appliances can meet the needs of offices with many thousands of users.
