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
  

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