Riverbed Steelhead Appliance

Riverbed Steelhead Appliance

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.

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.

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 System RiOS™

• 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.

What next?

• Download the Riverbed Steelhead brochure
• To speak to a technical consultant Click here
• Watch a Chalk and Talk on Wan Acceleration and WDS (Wide area data services)
• Click here to arrange a free trial.