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Riverbed RiOS Technology
100 x Application Acceleration Over the WAN
100 x Application Acceleration Over the WAN
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) is the software platform that powers the award-winning line of Steelhead™ appliances. Using the power of Steelhead appliances running RiOS, organizations of all sizes around the world have been able to dramatically simplify, accelerate, and consolidate their IT infrastructure.
RiOS 6.5 is Riverbed’s latest optimization system software release.
Riverbed has new optimizations for Mac clients, Citrix, Oracle E-Business 11i & 12, SharePoint & other web apps, and central printing. Disaster recovery, visibility and simplicity, and the RSP are also greatly enhanced with many new features.
With RiOS 6.5, Riverbed enables even faster performance for enterprise business applications and data protection and enhances manageability to deliver the market-leading WAN optimization solution. Through its comprehensive approach, Riverbed accelerates access to information to improve productivity and reduce costs. With more client and application specific optimizations, improved flexibility, and simplified management for large-scale deployments, Riverbed extends its technological leadership and helps customers do more.
With RiOS 6.5, Riverbed enables even faster performance for enterprise business applications and data protection and enhances manageability to deliver the market-leading WAN optimization solution. Through its comprehensive approach, Riverbed accelerates access to information to improve productivity and reduce costs. With more client and application specific optimizations, improved flexibility, and simplified management for large-scale deployments, Riverbed extends its technological leadership and helps customers do more.
RiOS Features
While some other approaches solve one or two aspects of application acceleration such as packet compression, Quality of Service (QoS), or WAFS (a.k.a. file caching), Riverbed has consistently stayed ahead of the market by attacking the three root causes of poor wide-area application performance simultaneously:
While some other approaches solve one or two aspects of application acceleration such as packet compression, Quality of Service (QoS), or WAFS (a.k.a. file caching), Riverbed has consistently stayed ahead of the market by attacking the three root causes of poor wide-area application performance simultaneously:
Insufficient WAN bandwidth
Insufficient transport protocols
Insufficient application protocols
Description |
Affects | Result | |
| Data Streamlining | Eliminates redundant bytes from transfers |
All TCP Traffic including SSL |
WAN bandwidth utilisation reduced by 60% to 95% Bandwidth optimised for specific applications, including latency sensitive applications like VoIP, video and Citrix |
| Prioritises application traffic | All WAN Traffic (TCP and UDP) | ||
| Transport Streamlining | Eliminates transport protocol inefficiencies | All TCP Traffic including SSL | Applications typically accelerated by 5 to 50x, and often up to 100x, even SSL-encrypted traffic. Up to 98% reduction in packet roundtrips |
| Application Streamlining | Reduces WAN roundtrips at the application layer | Specific Application | |
| Management Streamlining | Enables transparent deployment and centralised management | Management of Steelhead Appliances | Fewer IT resources required for deployment and management |