STEELCENTRAL CONTROLLER FOR STEELHEAD

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Improve Application Performance in the Hybrid Enterprise

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead enables you to easily leverage and control hybrid WANs for accelerated delivery, based on your business requirements, of critical applications over faster, more secure networks and less-critical recreational applications over the public Internet. The solution simplifies application performance and path management and ensures secure service-level delivery for business critical applications.

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead also provides performance monitoring with reporting metrics such as traffic levels, application throughput performance and TCP session flow characteristics – to help diagnose and fix problems.

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Improve Application Performance in the Hybrid Enterprise

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SteelHead Interceptor appliances in an easy-to-use, browser-based management console

SteelCentral Controller uses a wizard-like process for defining application policies based on customer business requirements. It helps you prioritize, secure and deliver applications over any network (MPLS and Internet) based on intent-based, global business policies.

It provides easy configuration, monitoring, upgrading, troubleshooting and reporting on your SteelHead solutions including groups of SteelHead CX appliances and virtual or cloud instances.

Easy Configuration

Centralizes configuration for a SteelHead deployment from a single dashboard
Enables configuration of security setup to enable hybrid path selection of secured networks
Sends configuration to SteelHeads automatically once they come online

Centralized monitoring and reporting

Monitors SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile and SteelHead Interceptor including health checks, auto-registrations and automatic backups
Supports SNMP MIBs to monitor SteelHeads through third party applications
Provides reporting capabilities on the SteelHead solution’s health and other statistics in an easy-to-use format

Uninterrupted service

Supports additions or removal of SteelHeads without affecting operations
Facilitates backup and restore of all configuration files from distributed SteelHeads
Allows scheduling of updates and policy configurations so they can take place after-hours or at any specified time

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Benefits: Manage hybrid WAN optimization at scale with SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead enables you to maximize the ROI of your SteelHead deployment.

Centralized management

Streamlines configuration and ongoing management of a large SteelHead deployment
Simplifies configuration management with flexible group features to deploy consistent configurations
Provides cluster management for the SteelHead Interceptor appliances
Facilitates configuration by automatically deriving all application path possibilities across all SteelHeads

Aggregated and granular reporting

Provides flexible reporting on the performance improvements
Reports on bandwidth usage, bandwidth compression, and specific performance of particular ports/apps /appliances
Displays a centralized view of the overall health of all SteelHeads

Visibility, Optimization, Control

Provides at-a-glance views globally, by sites and by application in dashboard views
Dynamically selects the best path based on application-aware, business intent-based policies and network availability
Increases application and data transfer performance up to 100x
Delivers improved visibility with end user monitoring for all optimized traffic on premise and now including optimized Web and SaaS applications

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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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Customer Stories for SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead

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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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