Lotus Notes has been a distributed application since its inception, and works well in most cases. However, the nature of Notes' constant and thorough database replication generates a tremendous amount of WAN traffic for remote users. Although the Notes application protocol is fairly efficient, the behavior of TCP combined with the high traffic causes the replication to slow down to a crawl in low-bandwidth, high-latency environments.

Steelhead appliances can be used to improve access to centralized Notes servers, or to dramatically reduce the time to update or back up your Notes database. Riverbed’s SDR technology eliminates all the repetitive bytes sent over the WAN. It also mitigates the effects of TCP slowdowns.

To find out more, download the Lotus Notes Performance Brief.