STEELHEAD INTERCEPTOR – WOC LOAD BALANCER

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
  

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

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

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%.

Read the IDC Report to learn the business value of Riverbed SteelHead

Infographic: SteelHead, the ROI Winner