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What is the Riverbed Steelhead?

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.

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Steelhead appliances come in a range of sizes to ensure that each of your offices has a properly sized acceleration appliance. The Steelhead 100 is meant for offices with just a few people; the 6000-series appliances can meet the needs of offices with many thousands of users.




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Accelerate the Applications that are the Most Important to You.

Riverbed has architected its products to provide the best possible acceleration for the broadest range of enterprise applications. This means that employees across your organisation can see dramatic, immediate benefits from the Steelhead product family. The Steelhead family is built on an application-independent architecture that optimises all TCP traffic for bandwidth utilisation 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, HTTPS, NFS, and MS SQL.


The Steelhead Family Technical Specifications

The new xx50 range:

  Small Office Mid-Size Office Large Office or Data Centre
Model 250 Series 550 Series 1050 Series 2050 Series 5050 Series 6050
Configurations L M H M H L M H M H M H  
Profile

desktop

 desktop 1U 1U 1U 1U 1U 3U 3U 3U
WAN Capacity 1

1Mbps

 1Mbps 1Mbps

2Mbps

2Mbps

6Mbps

6Mbps

 10Mbps

20Mbps

45Mbps

90Mbps

155Mbps

310Mbps
WAN Capacity (high Speed)1

1Mbps

 1Mbps 1Mbps

2Mbps


2Mbps

 

6Mbps

6Mbps

 10Mbps

20Mbps

45Mbps

1Gbps

1Gbps

 1Gbps
Optimised TCP Connections 3 30 125 200 300 600 800 1,300 2,300 4,000 6,000 9,000 18,000 50,000
Raw Capacity 120 GB 120 GB 120 GB 160
GB		 160
GB		 250
GB		 250
GB		 500
GB		 1 TB 1 TB 2 TB 3 TB 8 TB
Data Store capacity

40 GB

 40 GB 40 GB

80GB

80GB

100GB

100GB

 200GB

400GB

400GB

600GB

800GB

 3.5TB
RSP Partition 55GB 55GB 55GB 55GB 55GB 100GB 100GB 200GB 75GB 75GB 100GB* 150GB* 150GB*
Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)
RAID - - - - - - - -
Front Swappable Disks - - - - - 1 1 2 4** 4** 8** 12** 16**
RAM 1GB 1GB 1GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 4GB 6GB 6GB 8GB 8GB 24GB
Configurable Slots (PCI-e) - - - - - 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 4
Onboard Bypass ports (Copper) 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Max # of Bypass Ports 2 2 2 2 2 8 8 8 8 8 20 20 20

Notes

* Option Bypass cards- Dual/ Quad, Fiber/Copper GbE
** Hot swappable disks
+ No PFS support
Every Steelhead product comes with the Riverbed Optimisation SystemRiverbed RiOS Technology:

  • Data Streamlining optimises all WAN traffic by removing all redundant data and prioritising 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.


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