STEELHEAD INTERCEPTOR – WOC LOAD BALANCER

Enterprise scalability, high availability and exclusive load-balancer intelligence for SteelHead

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Amplify the power of SteelHead Interceptor by clustering multiple solutions together

When you want more throughput or connections than just one SteelHead can provide — or if you want a high-availability deployment option —SteelHead Interceptor helps manage and scale your network-wide throughput.

What is a Load Balancer?

SteelHead Interceptor enables customers to scale optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise, as well as very high bandwidth connections into the data center. SteelHead Interceptor clusters groups of SteelHeads to work together seamlessly and provides:

Real-time dynamic load balancing of your SteelHeads
Enhanced optimization for even greater throughput and bandwidth reduction
The ability to add, modify, or remove SteelHeads in real time, with no disruption to operations
Clustering of up to 20 SteelHeads to manage up to one million concurrent connections

ANALYST REPORT

IDC Calculates The Business Value of Riverbed SteelHead

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How It Works

With SteelHead Interceptor, you can intelligently integrate all your SteelHead solutions while directing activity and network load with superior management and administration capabilities.

Whether you want more throughput or connections than just one SteelHead can provide – or if you desire a higher availability option – SteelHead Interceptor helps manage and scale SteelHead solutions.

TCP connection forwarding

Ensures continuity between SteelHead appliances in large environments with asymmetrically-routed networks
Supports one to four Interceptors, and up to 20 SteelHead solutions

Multiple configuration options

Offers multiple configuration options − in series, in parallel and in quad
Delivers multiple in-path clustering and flexible network failure options

Detailed visibility

Supports up to 10 rules, tracing up to 1,000 connections for troubleshooting
Works with the SteelHead IP Address and Port Transparency feature for more visibility

Speed with finely tuned control

Supports 1 million optimized connections
Exclusively provides hardware assist pass through
Delivers fine grain control of what traffic gets optimized and how, with configurable load balancing rules
Allows real time-cluster management without disruption to services

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The Benefits of Steelhead Interceptor

SteelHead Interceptor makes it easy to extend the benefits of SteelHead solutions across a large enterprise, while centralizing management efforts and ensuring optimization services across the enterprise.

Optimization scalability and high-availability

Increases scalability to accelerate more users and applications in high bandwidth environments
Continues high availability operations by diverting to fully functional SteelHeads with a SteelHead or network failure
Offers fair peering load-balancing intelligence that steers traffic to the optimal SteelHead
Exclusively delivers the only load-balancing solution capable of assessing SteelHead appliances to most efficiently balance traffic

Simplified management for large enterprises

Integrates with Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for centralized management and upgrades
Automatically load-balances th entire SteelHead cluster
Eliminates transmission of redundant data to offer the most bandwidth reduction

Visibility, optimization and control

Increases application and data transfer performance up to 100x
Delivers improved visibility with end user monitoring for all optimized traffic on premise and web and SaaS applications

The Cisco solution met one of six criteria, but Riverbed gave us five of the six we wanted, and that breadth of capability was the key differentiator.

Eoghan Doyle

Director of infrastructure and Operations

Willis Group Holdings

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

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Infographic: SteelHead, the ROI Winner

Customer Stories for SteelHead Interceptor

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Technical Specifications

Need help choosing the SteelHead product that’s right for your organization?

Learn more about the technical characteristics and requirements of each model in the SteelHead Specs sheets.

	Datacenter
Model	INT9600	INT9350
Power [Watts] (Typical)	227	320
BTU	774	1091
System Dimensions (LxWxH)(iii)	27.87 X 17.24 X 3.45 in 707.8 X 438 X 87.6 mm	25.72x17.0x5.2 in 653.4x431.6x131.9 mm
Max Weight (without packaging)	40 Lbs/ 18.14 Kg	51Lbs/ 23.2Kg

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Featured Resources

Chalk Talk

SteelHead Chalk Talk: Visibility, Optimization and Control across the Hybrid WAN

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Data Sheet

SteelHead Interceptor Data Sheet

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SteelHead Services

Lifecycle consulting services to help you fast-track your deployments, ensure ongoing success, and optimize the business value of your SteelHead investments.