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WAN Optimization (Steelhead)

The performance of the wide area network (WAN) is critical to every globally connected enterprise. WANs connect people, applications, and data to make business possible. With Steelhead® WAN optimization solutions, organizations run faster and more efficiently.

WAN Optimization Appliances

The Riverbed® Steelhead® products accelerate application performance and data transfer over the wide area network (WAN), overcoming bandwidth and geographical limitations to improve productivity and enable global collaboration. With Riverbed, file transfers that once took hours or minutes, now take minutes or seconds.

WAN Optimization Software

With Riverbed® Virtual Steelhead™ appliances, WAN optimization now extends to deployments where physical hardware may not be conveniently suited. Military deployments, for example, typically use ruggedized, custom hardware on which running a virtual machine is more convenient.

Cloud WAN Optimization

Steelhead Cloud Accelerator is used by organizations of all sizes to improve application performance and to manage the delivery of business-critical data and content from a SaaS provider’s public cloud infrastructure. Cloud Steelhead simplifies WAN optimization integration into virtualized, cloud environments.

WAN Optimization Management

One web-based interface to deploy, configure, and upgrade groups of Steelhead appliances.

With Server/Storage Optimization (+Granite)

Riverbed® Granite™ appliances extend the virtual edge of the data center to the branch office, enabling complete consolidation of edge servers and data. They enable an architectural disruption known as edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI) that delivers the best of all worlds.

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Riverbed. WAN optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation. Riverbed is the IT performance company. WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed liberate businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies trust Riverbed to deliver greater productivity and cost savings by making their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Riverbed solutions are also available as managed services through select providers.