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.
Steelhead appliances come in a range of sizes to ensure that each of your offices has a properly sized acceleration appliance. Plus, with our upgradeable licensing capability, you don’t need to oversize a box for your remote offices and can ensure that you still have room to grow while protecting your WAN optimization investment.
Small Office Models
Steelhead 250
With Riverbed's smaller models, you can now provide even your smallest remote offices with the application acceleration benefits that every office deserves.
These Steelhead appliances cost-effectively accelerate offices with just a handful of people. The smallest Steelhead 250-H supports up to about 25 people.
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Mid Size Office Models
Steelhead 550, 1050 & 2050
For mid-size offices and regional data centers, Riverbed offers a powerful mid-range line of appliances. These models support an estimated 75 to 850 employees (depending on the device and usage characteristics), and scale up to 45 Mbps of WAN capacity. The mid-range Steelhead appliances also offer features that most competitors only offer in their high-end devices such as RAID and redundant power supplies.
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Large Office/Data centre models
Steelhead 5050, 6050, 7050 & INT9350
For your largest offices, corporate headquarters, or your data centers, the Steelhead Larger models provide even greater capacity, plus the redundancy required in a mission-critical technology. These devices contain RAID, triple power supplies, and hot-swappable disk to ensure maximum uptime and rock-solid hardware reliability.
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Steelhead Appliance Management
Steelhead appliances are designed for easy remote management
Steelhead Appliance Management and Reporting
Steelhead appliances include a robust enterprise-class management infrastructure that simplifies configuration, enables control from around the world, and provides full visibility into the health and performance of your Steelhead appliances. In addition to the management console available on every Steelhead appliance, enterprises can take advantage of the optional Central Management Console (CMC) to enable centralized management of many Steelhead appliances at once.
Management Features
Steelhead appliances can be managed through a rich GUI or command-line interface for fast set up, configuration, and remote management.