Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor

The Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor is a solution designed to enhance enterprise scalability, high availability, and load-balancer intelligence for Riverbed SteelHead, a WAN optimization solution. According to the vendor, this product is suitable for small, medium, and large enterprises in various industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and professional services.

Key Features

Load Balancer Intelligence: Efficiently distribute traffic across multiple SteelHead appliances to optimize resource utilization and ensure high availability and scalability of the WAN optimization infrastructure.

Enterprise Scalability: Seamlessly scale WAN optimization deployments as network requirements grow, supporting a large number of SteelHead appliances without compromising performance.

High Availability: Provide redundancy and failover capabilities for uninterrupted optimization services, allowing deployment of multiple SteelHead appliances in an active-active or active-passive configuration.

Centralized Management: Easily configure, monitor, and manage multiple SteelHead appliances from a single interface, simplifying the management of the WAN optimization infrastructure and improving operational efficiency.

Traffic Management and Prioritization: Enable traffic management and prioritization with Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, ensuring critical applications receive necessary bandwidth and resources.

Secure Optimization: Protect data transmitted over the WAN with industry-standard encryption protocols, ensuring confidentiality and integrity during optimization.

Application Visibility and Control: Gain insights into application performance and optimize traffic accordingly, prioritize critical applications, and ensure an optimal user experience.

Interoperability: Seamlessly integrate with Riverbed SteelHead and other Riverbed solutions, such as SteelConnect (SD-WAN) and SteelCentral (network performance management), for enhanced optimization capabilities.

Advanced Reporting and Analytics: Generate comprehensive reports, analyze optimization effectiveness, and make data-driven decisions for network optimization.

Flexible Deployment Options: Choose the most suitable deployment model based on network architecture and requirements, with options for physical appliance, virtual appliance, or cloud-based infrastructure, providing flexibility and scalability.