Riverbed
As a Riverbed Gold Partner, O2 Networks have provided technical consultation and installation services for some of the largest Riverbed deployments nationally and globally.
O2 Networks understand that delivering Riverbed's WAN Acceleration technology requires a comprehensive understanding of each client's corporate application mix. We partner with clients to define and categorise their unique applications mix and then prove the benefits inherent with deploying Riverbed's Steelhead appliances across their WAN.
Riverbed is recognised as the market leader for WAN Optimisation Controllers by Gartner in their most recent Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007.
The Riverbed WAN Acceleration Platform
The market leading Steelhead appliances are available in a range of sizes to meet the needs of any remote office - from small sales offices with just a few people, to major design centers and corporate facilities with thousands of employees.
Steelhead Mobile software enables workers on the move to enjoy LAN-like access to files and applications whether they are working from home, on the road, or even at customer sites.
The complete Steelhead product family optimizes traffic in both directions, transparent to your applications, and requires no reconfiguration to client and server software. All Steelhead products are designed for easy integration into your existing network, with no changes to routers or servers, and complete compatibility with existing QoS and VoIP implementations.
Business Benefits
Riverbed Steelhead appliances enable organisations to control and accelerate their corporate applications across their global offices be they large or small. These benefits include:
- Accelerate corporate applications dramatically - Streamline and accelerate chatty protocols and accelerate TCP traffic for your corporate applications across your WAN.
- Free up room and reduce data usage across links - Eliminate repetitive data crossing your WAN Links through pattern matching and smart caching of data traversing your links.
- Support sensitive realtime applications - Ensure correct performance of realtime applications such as VoIP, Video, Citrix & Terminal Services through prioritizing traffic flows and defining bandwidth limits.
- Drive consolidation efforts - Save money and reduce additional servers and network services @ branch offices through deploying these services virtually on the Riverbed appliances at each site.
Traditional bandwidth upgrades no longer provide the application performance improvements necessary to help deliver strong improvements for organisations. To elaborate:
- Today’s corporate applications are still not designed with small links and latency limitations inherent with a WAN (in comparison to LAN).
- Simply throwing more bandwidth at congested or slow performing links may not resolve application performance slowness. Chatty applications have the nasty habit of chewing up bandwidth regardless of how much you provide (a good example being print queues and jobs)
- Bandwidth upgrades are an ongoing and typically hefty opex increase with no guarantees of improving performance. The performance of WAN acceleration appliances can be tested and proven prior to locking in a decision. The improvements can be readily measured through SLA and reporting efforts deliver a strong ROI.
By deploying Steelhead appliances and software, enterprises can accelerate application performance from 5 to 50 times – and in some cases up to 100 times – as well as reduced bandwidth. Steelhead appliances and software can deliver more responsive applications, successful consolidation of distributed IT infrastructure, and enable expedited network-based backup and replication.
Mobile Applications Acceleration
Riverbed’s Steelhead Mobile software client delivers LAN-like application performance to any employee, regardless of location. Packaged and installed on mobile laptops and remote desktops, Steelhead Mobile leverage's Riverbed wide-area data services acceleration technology to drive corporate application performance up and raw data usage down.
Employees on the road, working from home or connected wirelessly in the office can now
experience performance improvements up to 100x. File transfers that once took up to an hour can now be accomplished in a couple of minutes or seconds. The software is easy to install and manage with no user intervention required.
Steelhead Mobile extends virtually the same functionality found in Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances to mobile workers everywhere.
Providing support for the broad range of applications that enterprises use the most, Steelhead Mobile enables remote workers to collaborate and access applications as if they were in the office. Steelhead Mobile helps eliminate performance problems caused by bandwidth constraints, latency, or application protocol inefficiencies, resulting in enhanced user productivity and satisfaction.
With Steelhead Mobile, data moves faster, applications perform seamlessly, and remote workers are no longer “remote”.
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