Large Office / Data Center Models

For your largest offices, corporate headquarters, or your data centers, the Steelhead Larger models provide even greater capacity, plus the redundancy required in a mission-critical technology.

Optional multi-port Ethernet cards enable integration into multi-link or redundant WAN configurations. Clustering with the Interceptor appliance provides additional failover or scaling in extremely large deployments, ensuring that Steelhead appliances can always scale up to meet your application acceleration needs.

These devices contain RAID, triple power supplies, and hot-swappable disk to ensure maximum uptime and rock-solid hardware reliability.


Model Specifications

The 50 Series Appliances (xx50 Specs)

Steelhead Model 2050
Series
5050
Series
6050
Series
Configurations              M H M H  
Profile 1U 3U 3U
WAN Capacity1 20
Mbps
45
Mbps
90
Mbps
155
Mbps
310
Mbps
WAN Capacity
(High- speed)1
20
Mbps
45
Mbps
1
Gbps
1
Gbps
1
Gbps
Optimized TCP Connections2 4,000 6,000 9,000 18,000 50,000
Raw Capacity 1
TB
1
TB
2
TB
3
TB
8
TB
Data Store Capacity 400
GB
400
GB
600
GB
800
GB
3.5
TB
1 Inbound (WAN to LAN) Steelhead capacity is unrestricted; outbound WAN capacity can be expected up to the amount listed
  On the 5050, and 6050 total WAN capacity equals inbound traffic + outbound traffic
2 Any Steelhead model can be clustered


WAN optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation