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October 20, 2019
Riverbed Steelhead - Makes your network speedy!
We use Riverbed Steelheads at all of our sites (around 10). They are mainly used to optimise SMB traffic from file servers. This allows us to have near local performance for opening word documents and PDFs. It also helps with Exchange Mailboxes, with a handy feature that continues to sync mail onto the Riverbed Unit even when the client is turned off.
- File and Folder Optimisation
- Microsoft Exchange Optimisation
- Data Bandwidth Reporting
- We found that the Citrix optimisation wasn't as fast as we had hoped
Riverbed Steelhead is used within our organization for the global acceleration of all applications and additionally for our customers as a managed service. For this reason, we designed a product based on Riverbed and named it Managed WAN Acceleration Service. Our customers are buying that service and we keep the hardware up and running and in service.
- Remote sites to datacenters
- Performance over long distances
- Security over WAN
- Integration of public clouds with their licensing
- All hardware in one controller like Steel-Connect
March 29, 2019
Great WAN compression and optimization product
Our organization uses Riverbed Steelhead devices between our Production site and our Disaster Recovery site. It has drastically improved the throughput of our WAN connection between these locations. Our 100mb connection is often able to carry 800+mb of compressed and optimized data. Additionally, with 11 remote locations, we use the steelhead mobile controller to optimized traffic between our Production site and remote users. This dramatically improves the end user experience over VPN connections.
- Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
- Seamless operation.
- Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.
- It would be great if Riverbed extended these capabilities to cellphones and tablets.
Steelhead is used to limit the bandwidth usage for our remote offices.
- For many protocols, Steelhead does not need any tuning to provide benefit.
- In our offices that are using SnapMirror replication we've seen over 90% optimization.
- We've had a recurring issue with SPORT errors causing Steelhead to crash across our environment. This has been an issue across several versions of code.
- Steelhead will randomly drop out of the AD domain thus disabling SMB2/3 optimization and encrypted MAPI optimization.
September 02, 2016
Steelhead Riverbed - a solid performer
We have Riverbed Steelhead deployed across our global organization. We use it to optimize traffic, which allows us to use lower MPLS bandwidth than otherwise needed, saving us thousands of dollars. We also use it to analyze traffic flows.
- Optimizes traffic, reducing bandwidth needs
- Gives insight into traffic
- Simple to set up and deploy
- A reduction in price is always welcomed
- Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
- Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive
Riverbed SteelHead Scorecard Summary
About Riverbed SteelHead
San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN Optimization, providing a single, unified orchestration and connectivity fabric across the entire distributed enterprise network with embedded security, optimization, and visibility.
Categories: Software-Defined WAN, WAN Optimization
Riverbed SteelHead Technical Details
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application: | No |