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After installing Riverbed Steelhead appliances at its UK and Dubai offices, Lucy Switchgear experienced a 50% reduction in bandwidth utilization and 90% improvement in file transfer times.

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Steelhead Mobile

Faster application performance and better support for mobile workers.

"Documents that used to take 20 minutes to download from the SharePoint portal now take 10-30 seconds depending on location. With 75 times faster document access, it’s no surprise to see that general managers are adopting the SharePoint portal over faxing documents back and forth. For the company, it means that we’re now all communicating in real time and delivering the most up-to-date products and services to the customer."
—Steven Farley, Director of Information Systems and Operations, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group

With Steelhead® Mobile client software, companies of any size can give mobile workers LAN-like access to corporate files and applications no matter where they are in the world. Steelhead Mobile overcomes the challenges that plague mobile workers, including variable locations, inconsistent links, and high-latency environments, and it does so seamlessly and transparently. The result? Higher productivity and more efficient operations, access, and performance anywhere.

Steelhead Mobile from Riverbed®:

  • Improves performance without burdening users. Steelhead Mobile operates through a simple software package installed on laptops or desktops. That means users don’t need to learn new technologies, change existing processes, or find new ways to collaborate. The only difference they’ll see is much faster performance — their applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange, will run 8-100 times faster.
  • Speeds web-based applications by 20-60 times. Steelhead Mobile is built with the same Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) software that powers the Steelhead appliance, and provides the same optimizations and benefits that dramatically improve performance and minimizes bandwidth utilization.  This consistency allows organizations to implement a single solution for branch office and mobile workers for web applications that rely on HTTP and HTTPS. Business-critical applications (such as SharePoint, intranet portals, and web-based document management systems) and web-enabled ERP and CRM applications (such as SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, and Siebel) are all accelerated up to 60 times faster.
  • Accelerates Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. A Microsoft-signed filter driver brings all the benefits of Steelhead Mobile to Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. Organizations can now improve the performance of Microsoft’s entire catalog of operating systems and 64-bit systems that are required by memory and data intensive applications like Revit.
  • Delivers “warm” performance regardless of location. Branch warming allows mobile and branch office users to share optimized data and experience even greater overall acceleration. Mobile workers can reap all the benefits of Steelhead optimization.
  • Lowers costs. Steelhead Mobile reduces bandwidth use by 85-99 percent, cutting data charges that can be particularly costly for users connecting over data cards and satellite links.
  • Deploys quickly and easily. Steelhead Mobile interacts directly with any Steelhead appliance to provide optimization.  IT managers don't need to make any changes to routers, VPN infrastructure, SSL/HTTPS servers, or any other key technologies.
  • Provides custom configuration capabilities. Using the Steelhead Mobile Controller, IT administrators can control the configuration policies that determine what optimizations take place per user or groups of users. They can also give users access to Steelhead Mobile-related information, or make Steelhead Mobile completely invisible. And they can manage Steelhead Mobile remotely from the Steelhead Mobile Controller.

Steelhead Mobile
Operating System Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 (32 bit versions only), Vista (32 bit and 64 bit versions), Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit versions), Mac OSX
CPU Celeron 650 MHz
Memory 256 MB
Disk Space 256 MB
Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC) Required: Either Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance or Steelhead Mobile Controller Virtual Edition
Concurrent Clients Supported per SMC SMC-Appliance: 4000, Virtual SMC: 4000, SMC-Virtual Edition for RSP:100
VPN Compatibility Yes
Wireless PC Card Compatibility Yes
SSL/HTTPS Compatibility Yes
MSI Package Builder Yes
Steelhead Auto-detection Yes
Product Specifications: Steelhead Mobile Controller
Steelhead Model SMC8650
Configurations  
Profile 1U
Upgradeable To -
Total Throughput Capacitya NA
Optimized TCP and UDP flowsd -
Raw Capacity 1 TB
Data Store Capacity NA
RSP Partitionk -
RSP 64 Bit Packages -
Storage Fault Tolerance -
Front Swappable Disks 2
RAMm 6 GB
Configurable Slots (PCI-e)h -
Onboard Bypass Ports (Copper) -
Max. # of Bypass Ports -

(a) Inbound (WAN to LAN) Steelhead capacity is unrestricted; outbound WAN capacity can be expected up to the amount listed. On the 2050, 5050, and 6050, total WAN capacity equals inbound traffic + outbound traffic
(d) TCP and UDP flows can be expected up to the amount listed
(h) Optional Network Bypass cards: Dual and Quad LX and SX GigE Fiber GigE, Quad Copper GigE, Dual 10GbE SR/LR
(k) Raw disk capacity allocated to the RSP partition. About 7GB is used by RSP package and filesystem. Partner packages need additional storage (based on the size of the package)
(m) RSP requires additional 2GB of memory, 6050 requires 4GB, 7050 requires 8GB

Download the Steelhead Product Family Spec Sheet (PDF: 930 KB)

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