The Interceptor appliance extends the scaling and performance capabilities of Steelhead appliances to meet the requirements of very large data center environments.
The Interceptor appliance allows clusters of up to 25 Steelhead appliances to work together seamlessly, and can greatly simplify network set up, while offering an even wider choice of high-availability configurations to support the largest and most complex enterprise networks. This enables customers to scale their WAN optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise, as well as very high bandwidth WAN links into the data center.
Key Benefits
• Increased scalability to accelerate more users and applications in high
bandwidth environments
• Simplified deployment of appliances in very large datacenters
• High Availability configurations to keep WAN optimization running
Specifications
Scalability
• Cluster up 25 Steelhead appliances
• Up to 1,000,000 concurrent
connections
• Up to sixteen 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports
(SX & LX)
• Up to eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Ether-channel support
Configuration and Management
• Familiar RiOS user interface
• Variable and Auto Connection
Distribution
• QoS compatible
High Availability
• Real-time cluster management
• Failover support
• Link state propagation
Platform
• 3U rack mount chassis
• Redundant power supplies