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Riverbed SteelHead

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What is 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,…

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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in …
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What is 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…

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Riverbed steelhead basic configuration with demo.

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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in file opening time, going from an excruciating 20 minutes to a mere 1.5 minutes. This improvement has made large files workable and has greatly enhanced productivity for remote workers. Additionally, Riverbed Steelhead is widely used for global application acceleration and as a managed service, providing customers with improved operational efficiency. By optimizing traffic and reducing latency, this product ensures that users can access applications and data quickly, regardless of their location.

Another key use case for Riverbed Steelhead is the optimization of WAN connections between different sites. Organizations that have implemented this product have experienced a remarkable improvement in throughput, allowing for the transmission of compressed and optimized data between production and disaster recovery sites. Moreover, the Steelhead mobile controller plays a vital role in enhancing the end-user experience over VPN connections. By optimizing traffic between the production site and remote users, it ensures that performance is maintained, even when working remotely.

Many organizations also rely on Riverbed Steelhead to optimize traffic and limit bandwidth usage for their remote offices, providing near-local performance for tasks such as file opening and mailbox syncing. This not only improves productivity but also reduces the reliance on expensive MPLS bandwidth. Customers who opt for the Managed WAN Acceleration Service based on Riverbed benefit from having their hardware consistently up and running, ensuring smooth operations without the hassle of maintaining the infrastructure themselves.

Lastly, Riverbed Steelhead offers valuable traffic flow analysis capabilities. This feature allows organizations to gain insights into their network traffic patterns, identify bottlenecks or congested areas, and make informed decisions about network optimization strategies.

Overall, Riverbed Steelhead has demonstrated its value across different use cases by improving file opening times, enhancing operational efficiency, optimizing WAN connections, providing a seamless remote work experience, limiting bandwidth usage, and enabling effective traffic analysis. Its versatility and reliability have made it a go-to solution for organizations looking to maximize their network performance.

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September 23, 2021

Trusted Steelhead

Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
When COVID hit we really felt we were remote ready. Although our remote options were good, our Riverbed Steelhead allow our large files to be workable where they were not before. A 20 minute file opening time was cut to only 1.5 minutes bringing us back to office like work conditions. Since then it has only helped to streamline our operations.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ralf Richter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tim Slater | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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