Workforce Performance at Home and On the Go
With modern, mobile workforces spanning the globe and consuming business applications from home offices, coffee shops, airports and client sites, network connections are ever-changing and unpredictable. And this unpredictability greatly limits an enterprise or organization from maximizing the performance of the applications required to execute business, so that mobile employees can remain productive no matter where they may be.
Riverbed Client Accelerator (formerly called SteelHead Mobile) delivers leading-edge application acceleration to mobile workers anywhere. Delivered in a software-only form factor, Client Accelerator extends best-in-class optimization and acceleration technology to mobile agents, providing accelerated access to on-prem, IaaS, or SaaS-based applications even in less than ideal conditions.
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Benefits for the Mobile Workforce
Workforce productivity anywhere, anytime
Fast, consistent, available enterprise applications wherever your employees do their work, for improved customer/client /employee satisfaction, faster time to market, faster time to pipeline/revenue, improved reputation and lower cost/risk to the business.
- Eliminates performance problems caused by unpredictable network latency and competition among applications
- 10x faster, reliable performance for business-critical SaaS (O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Box, Veeva and more), and on-prem applications
- Reduces network bandwidth by up to 99%
Streamline IT management and reduce support costs
Provide an integrated mobile worker, branch office, data center, and cloud solution.
Easy deployment
Uses a simple lightweight executable to install an agent to end-user desktops or laptops.
Additional Resources
Packet Pushers: Solving SaaS Performance Problems
How Riverbed helps engineers solve SaaS challenges imposed by hybrid networks, latency, and mobile workers
Work Productively At Home and On the Go
Maximize Network and App Performance for Your Remote Employees
Riverbed SaaS and Client Accelerator Set-Up and Performance Comparison
See how quick it is to set up Riverbed acceleration solutions
The Unpredictability of Office 365 Performance in a Work-from-Home Culture
Riverbed SaaS Accelerator ensures excellent Office 365 performance, no matter your location
Technical Specifications
Client Accelerator | ||||
Operating System | Version 6.0/higher Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 8.1 (64 bit), Windows 10 (32 and 64 bit), MacOS 10.11, 10.12, and 10.13 | |||
CPU | 1GHz or higher | |||
Memory | 2GB or higher | |||
Data Store | 256 MB free disk space (min. required) | |||
VSP CPU & Memory Requirements | Minimum 1 CPU (1GHz or higher) & 3 GB or higher | |||
SteelHead Appliance(1) | Minimum 1 Physical (CX, EX), Virtual (VCX) or Cloud SteelHead (CCX) needed on the Server Side |
Download the full SteelHead Family Spec Sheet
Customer Stories for Client Accelerator


Time to open large CAD files from home shrank from 20 minutes to 90 seconds—with Riverbed® Client Accelerator
Time to open large CAD files from home shrank from 20 minutes to 90 seconds—with Riverbed® Client Accelerator


Consultants in remote areas can quickly access centralized files from home or job sites, with Riverbed Client Accelerator
Consultants in remote areas can quickly access centralized files from home or job sites, with Riverbed Client Accelerator


Consulting Firm Improves Performance over the WAN for Branch Offices and Mobile Workiers
JEO Consulting Group, Inc. brought in Steelhead appliances to help them effectively collaborate over their existing WAN. The result was better collaboration across their entire organization.
In the past, downloading a 110-megabyte project folder from home on a DSL connection could take about 60 minutes. With Steelhead Mobile, I can complete that transfer in about a minute and a half. Not only that, some of our users are seeing as much as 75% less data going over their Internet connection. That really makes it possible to work productively over a home DSL line or a hotel Wi-Fi connection.Travis Klasna, IT Manager, JEO


Riverbed helps global manufacturing company scale its business and take central control
Roxtec manufactures cable and pipe sealing solutions for industries including marine and offshore, telecom, energy and construction. The company is headquartered in Sweden and has 23 subsidiaries around the world.
Whenever we open up a new subsidiary, we can deploy the Riverbed solution fast and efficiently. It’s a very successful strategy.Johan Jartelius, CIO, Roxtec


Riverbed enables global information sharing and collaboration By accelerating previously unusable groupware
Senko Co., Ltd. (Senko) is a logistics company with approximately 400 domestic and 33 overseas locations. Senko provides a variety of services including building efficient logistics systems for supply chain management, outsourcing logistics to save costs, and building logistics systems that accommodate recycling-oriented societies and globalization. It always strives to be the best partner for its customers.
The control screen for the mobile controller is user friendly. We can see the benefits SteelHead Mobile at the individual client PC level and also view asset information. We can predict network issues ahead of time, so we are now able to take preventative measures.Shigeyuki Tanaka, Manager of the Production Management Department, Senko


Branch employees and mobile users at Indian law firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas were facing protracted delays in the performance of virtualized applications resulting in a loss of productivity and end-user complaints.
Using Riverbed® SteelHead® to optimize the firm’s hybrid WAN network traffic and accelerate applications dramatically improved the end-user experience, boosting the firm’s overall productivity. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is a full service Indian law firm headquartered in New Delhi. It currently has 450 lawyers out of 630 employees and seven offices across the country located in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Chennai.
End-user complaints have been drastically reduced at branch offices because all applications are behaving as expected,” he said. “In fact, branch users do not notice any difference or delays in app delivery, even during occasions when bandwidth consumption by users logging in from headquarters goes up.Shams Khan, Head, IT Infrastructure and Information Security, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
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