Riverbed 3

SteelHead Interceptor

Scalability and High Availability with SteelHead Intelligence

Amplify the power of WAN Optimization by bundling several SteelHead solutions together

When you want more throughput or connections than just what a SteelHead can provide – or if you want a high-availability deployment option – the SteelHead Interceptor helps you manage and scale the throughput of your entire network.

What is a Load Balancer?

The SteelHead Interceptor allows customers to scale optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise, as well as very high bandwidth connections to the data center. The SteelHead Interceptor groups SteelHead clusters to work together seamlessly and provides:

  • Real-time dynamic load balancing of your SteelHeads;
  • Improved optimization for even greater throughput and reduced bandwidth;
  • The ability to add, modify or remove SteelHeads in real time, without interrupting operations;
  • Grouping of up to 20 SteelHeads to manage up to one million simultaneous connections.

Benefits of the SteelHead Interceptor:

TCP connection forwarding

Ensures continuity between SteelHead appliances in large environments with asymmetric networks.

Multiple configuration options

It offers multiple configuration options - in series, parallel and quad.

Detailed visibility

Supports up to 10 rules, tracing up to 1,000 calls for troubleshooting.

Speed with finely tuned control

Supports 1 million optimized connections.