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Riverbed Interceptor
High scalability & availability for sites with mutliple Steelhead appliances
High scalability & availability for sites with mutliple Steelhead appliances
The Interceptor® appliance extends the scaling and high-availability capabilities of Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed Technology to meet the requirements of the largest and most complex enterprise networks and data center environments.
The Interceptor appliance clusters up to 25 Steelhead appliances so they can work together seamlessly to scale out to a million TCP connections and up to 12 Gbps of throughput. It simplifies network setup while offering a wide choice of high-availability configurations.
With the Interceptor appliance, you can scale your WAN optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across the enterprise, and scale up to optimize very-high bandwidth network connections in the data center.
| "We didn’t have to dramatically change or reinvest in anything, like Cisco equipment or any other equipment. Essentially, the appliances worked out of the box." Eoghan Doyle, Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Willis Group Holdings. |
Interceptor from Riverbed®:
- Increases scalability to accelerate more users and applications in high-bandwidth environments
- Simplifies deployment of appliances in very-large data centers
- Offers a broad range of high-availability configurations to keep WAN optimization running
- Offers more network integration options, better management and administration capabilities, and better performance compared with load balancers, WCCP, policy-based routing, or other alternatives designed to enhance scalability.
Up to 1,000,000 concurrent connections.
Interceptor appliances enable large numbers of Steelhead appliances to work in parallel,
optimizing up to 1,000,000 connections. The Interceptor supports in-path configurations over a single interface as large as a 6 Gbps etherchannel
trunk.
Up to sixteen 1 Gigabit or four 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Interceptor appliances can be configured with a choice of 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports to provide maximum scalability on networks with multi-router ingress/egress.
Ether-channel support.
Interceptor appliances provide ether-channel support to expand bandwidth capacity in a variety of combinations to suit any environment. One 6Gbps interface, one 4Gbps and one 2 Gbps interface, or three 2Gbps interfaces are all supported.
TCP Connection Forwarding.
Very large environments with asymmetrically-routed networks can employ Connection Forwarding technology between appliances to ensure connection continuity. Connection Forwarding works with up to 20 Interceptor appliances in single or failover mode.
Real-time cluster management.
The Interceptor allows real-time addition, modification, or removal of Steelhead appliances in a connection distribution group, with no disruption to operations in progress.
