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SteelConnect is a revolutionary application-defined SD-WAN solution

It provides you with an intelligent and simplified approach to designing, deploying and managing distributed networks for today’s cloud-centric world.

SteelConnect leverages the principles of software-defined control to provide:

Simple yet powerful workflows for policy definition based on a new set of primitives to reflect the natural language of business: Applications, Users, Sites, Performance and Security
Single-click setup of SD-WAN and application acceleration capabilities in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud environments
User-to-server control, wherever the user (static or mobile) or server (cloud or on-premises) might be
Scalability for large environments, including data centers. No rip-and-replace needed
Integrated application acceleration and visibility capabilities, provided as a single-box, dual-box, virtual or cloud-based solution

Why SteelConnect?

SteelConnect is the only SD-WAN solution that:

Allows single-click creation of SD-WAN capabilities in the cloud
Fully automates secure connectivity between cloud vendors, between cloud regions and between branch locations and the cloud
Provides a unified management console for cloud, WAN and LAN/WLAN. Application acceleration, WAN Optimization and visibility are also orchestrated here
Replaces the pains of WAN management complexity with cloud-era IT agility

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SteelConnect was designed to be highly intuitive and powerful

The solution consists of appliances and a centralized management console that the administrator uses to view network health, deploy appliances and make changes to policy. Secure connectivity is automatically established with appliances, policy is updated, and, based on real-time network health, business-critical applications always receive right-of-way.

How it works: SteelConnect components include:

SteelConnect Gateway: A line of physical and virtual secure WAN gateways that provide unified connectivity (point-to-point and full-mesh) and enforcement of global policy across on-premises and cloud network environments, zero-touch provisioning, automated VPN management and next-generation firewall and threat protection capabilities.
SteelConnect Switches & Access Points: A line of remote LAN switches and Wi-Fi access points that support zero-touch provisioning, automate global enforcement of access control policies and provide complete visibility into connected users and devices.
SteelConnect Manager: A centralized and multi-tenant management portal that provides an intuitive and simplified workflow for designing, deploying and managing distributed and hybrid networks

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Benefits: How SteelConnect Accelerates Your Business Performance

Agility: Quickly respond to the needs of your business with application-centric, business intent-based policies that are centrally managed and applied network-wide across all remote locations.
Reduced Costs: Maximize the use of redundant and lower cost connectivity options with zero-touch provisioning & centralized management to reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining a hybrid WAN architecture.
Security: Leverage secure transport network services & integrated firewall capabilities to ensure the secure delivery of all applications across your hybrid enterprise. Securely identify and manage the performance of today’s modern and encrypted applications running over SSL, TLS and HTTPS.
Reliability: Create a highly available WAN architecture that virtualizes and dynamically leverages multiple links at remote locations. Retain end-to-end visibility of network performance and end-user experience for troubleshooting and problem resolution.
Performance: Deliver superior application performance to your business with the industry-leading WAN optimization solution from Riverbed.

Cost-Savings Estimator: How Much Can You Save With SteelConnect SD-WAN?

Use this estimation tool to find out how much you would save based on your custom SD-WAN use-cases and deployment size. You can also contact us to talk about your individual use cases.

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Customer Stories for SteelConnect

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SteelConnect SD-WAN lets OpenEye quickly expand its network while connecting team members to its cloud-based pharmaceutical design platform in minutes, compared to months required previously. SteelConnect also provides the scalability needed to expand SaaS offerings.

OpenEye Scientific is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, NM, with offices in Boston, Cologne, and Tokyo. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale molecular modeling applications and toolkits that are primarily used for pharmaceutical discovery and design, reducing time to market for new pharmaceuticals.

SteelConnect enables us to be far more agile, which is really good for our growing business. Craig Bruce , Scientific Software Developer, OpenEye

GHD needed a simple, cost-effective solution to enable the rapid deployment of 50 new sites.

When global professional services company GHD merged with North American engineering consultancy Conestoga-Rovers and Associates (CRA), it added more than 3,000 employees in 100 offices, including 50 small sites. They needed a simple, cost-effective solution to enable the rapid deployment of those new sites onto the company’s network. Riverbed SteelConnect has helped GHD achieve this, fueling stronger collaboration amongst its project teams spread across the globe, business agility and cost savings of an anticipated USD 1 million a year.

GHD deployed Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution SteelConnect across 50 new offices in just four weeks, and we anticipate saving $1 million annually. Elizabeth Harper, CIO, GHD

SimplePay Group Selects Riverbed as its Software-defined Networking Partner to Scale its Business Globally

SimplePay opened its doors in Sydney in 2012, quickly establishing itself as a leading payment processing company in Australia. The company’s core value proposition is its market-leading ability to securely process large volumes of transactions across markets and currencies on a single platform. SimplePay solutions address data integrity, privacy and security policies and cover more payment methods than any other provider.

The systems were working fine for us locally in Australia, but I recognized early on that they couldn’t be easily scaled across the globe or easily managed from a reliability and sustainability perspective. We didn’t want to have to drop IT staff in to every new location. Rob Gillan, Chief Technology Officer, SimplePay

Technical Specifications

Learn more about the technical characteristics and requirements of SteelConnect.

Model	SDI-VGW
Use Case	Virtual- and Cloud Environments
Recommended # of users	5-2500 users
Performance	VGW-LIC-BW010: 100Mbps VPN Hardware requirements: 1 CPU core @ 2.1 GHz (Intel E5-2600v4) 1GB DRAM & 200MB storage VGW-LIC: 2.5 Gbps VPN Hardware requirements: 4 CPU cores @ 3.0 GHz or 6 CPU cores @ 2.1 GHz (Intel E5-2600v4) 8GB DRAM & 2GB storage Actual performance will vary depending on hypervisor/virtualization & hardware platform design
Interfaces	3x 1GbE or 1x 10GbE WAN ports 8x LAN ports
Temperature Range	N/A

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