Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances address all of the issues that affect application

performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of applications that companies

and knowledge workers rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, document management

systems, IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. With Riverbed, any of these applications can be

accelerated somewhere between 5 and 50, and even up to 100 times faster.

• Data Streamlining optimizes all WAN traffic by removing all redundant data

              and prioritizing traffic through advanced QoS mechanisms

• Transport Streamlining improves the behavior of TCP

• Application Streamlining reduces application protocol inefficiencies and enables

              disconnected operations

• Management Streamlining simplifies the deployment, maintenance, and

              management of the appliances

Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed's Steelhead appliances provide the highest level of WAN performance across the broadest range

of applications. Available in a wide range of sizes – all powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) –

Steelhead appliances are also the most scalable approach to application acceleration across your WAN.

Model Specifications

WAN Capacity

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Steelhead 100, 200

With Riverbed's smaller models, you can now provide even your smallest remote offices with the application

acceleration benefits that every office deserves.

The Steelhead 100 and Steelhead 200 now cost-effectively accelerate offices with just a handful of people.

The Steelhead 100 supports up to about 5 people while the Steelhead 200 supports up to about 20 people.

These appliances are designed with a small, quiet form factor so that they can run on a desk as opposed to a

dedicated server room or data center. They contain all the key optimization technologies within RiOS, thereby

providing significant bandwidth reduction and application acceleration simultaneously.

In order to accommodate future growth, the Steelhead model 100 is software-upgradeable to the model 200.

Steelhead 520, 1020, 1520, 2020

For mid-size offices and regional hubs, Riverbed offers the 520, 1020, 1520, and 2020 models. Supporting an

estimated 75 to 650 employees (depending on the device and usage characteristics), these models provide

greater capacity as well as Proxy File Services.

With a convenient 1U server format, these models can easily be rack-mounted or kept in a server closet.

Optional multi-port Ethernet cards enable integration into multi-link or redundant WAN links.

In order to accommodate future growth, the Steelhead model 520 is software-upgradeable to the model 1020.

Steelhead 3020, 3520, 5520, 6020

For your largest offices, corporate headquarters, or your data centers, the Steelhead models 3020, 3520,

5520, and 6020 provide even greater capacity, plus the redundancy required in a mission-critical technology.

Optional multi-port Ethernet cards enable integration into multi-link or redundant WAN configurations. Clustering

with the Interceptor appliance provides additional failover or scaling in extremely large deployments, ensuring

that Steelhead appliances can always scale up to meet your application acceleration needs.

With a 3U rack-mountable form factor, these devices contain RAID, triple power supplies, and hot-swappable            disk to ensure maximum uptime and rock-solid hardware reliability.