Riverbed Technology
Leading-edge performance for Wide-area Data Services
Meta Infotech
Mumbai, India
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The business environment is changing
Increasing dependence on
business applications
Increasing consolidation of IT
Lower costs & easier to manage
Guaranteed data protection
Increasing distribution of organizations
67% of employees work in a location
other than the headquarters
Globalization – global clients, global
projects, global offices
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Distributed offices present new IT challenges
Lost Profit
Users can’t
get the job done
Applications are just
too slow
Small tasks become
User big ones
frustration & mutiny
IT is focused on
Seconds of “wait time” fire-fighting
Costly becomes minutes…
infrastructure hours…days.
upgrades
Users create work-
Servers arounds to avoid
Bandwidth corporate applications
Storage
Implementation
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Steelhead™ appliances solve these problems
“Makes 3000 Miles…feel like 30 Feet”
BRANCH OFFICE
WAN
DATA CENTER
BRANCH OFFICE
• Increases user and IT productivity • Eliminates the need for remote infrastructure
• Accelerates applications • Easy to deploy
• Saves bandwidth No changes to client/servers
No changes to IP addresses or QoS markings
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One product, many solutions
Riverbed SteelheadTM Appliances
Application Site Bandwidth
Acceleration Consolidation Optimization
• Backup • File servers • Expand narrow links
• Replication • Email servers • Fill up LFNs
• Windows File Sharing • Filers • Avoid WAN upgrades
• NFS • Remote storage • Reduce WAN bandwidth
• Email
• FTP • Tape backup equip.
• Web • Off-site media mgmt.
• ERP/CRM • On-line backup
• Lotus Notes • Outsourced services
• Custom apps
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What customers say about Steelhead appliances
Accelerates applications used on WANs
“ 70X faster AutoCAD file sharing”
Enables site consolidation for servers & storage
“Microsoft Exchange servers consolidated to regional data centers
with no performance hit”
“IT able to open a new office with no IT infrastructure”
Increases capacity of WAN links
“Bandwidth utilization cut by 80%”
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What the industry says about Steelhead appliances
2005 & 2006 Product of the Year: Best WAN Accelerator
–InfoWorld Magazine
“I estimate the adoption of the Riverbed technology is
saving the company an estimated $1 million annually”
–Erik Durand, Winner, NetworkWorld,
Renovator Award Runner-Up, 2005
Riverbed Technology is a “clever solution to a universal
problem that until now has not received a lot of attention”
–Riverbed wins 2005 WSJ Innovator Award
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Maximizing remote application performance
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Distributed computing problems are converging
• Networking problems
Need “more bandwidth”
Latency is a secret throughput killer
Storage
Tape Tape Filers
Backup Backup
WAN
BRANCH OFFICE DATA CENTER
File
Servers Mail
Servers Filers Mail
File Web Servers
Servers Servers
• Storage problems • Application problems
Data sprawl Web, e-mail, FTP, Notes, ERP,
Islands of storage database, etc…
Backup & replication Slow response times
Compliance worries Apps often not used…too slow
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Wide-area data services (WDS) is an integrated approach
Applications
Networking
LAN-like WAN
performance Overcome bandwidth
and latency constraints
Storage
Consolidate and simplify
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The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS)
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The three root causes of poor wide-area application performance
Not enough bandwidth
Transport protocol chattiness
Application protocol inefficiencies
If you don’t solve all three, users won’t see performance benefits.
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RiOS is an integrated approach
The Riverbed Optimization System
Data Streamlining • Eliminate redundant bytes from transfers
Transport Streamlining • Eliminate transport protocol inefficiencies
Application Streamlining • Optimize application WAN performance
Management Streamlining • Enable transparent deployment & central management
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The RiOS underlying framework
Initiate new TCP
Maintain TCP sessions Maintain TCP
sessions sessions
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
• Transparent deployment
• Auto-discovery, auto-interception
• No changes to clients, servers, or applications
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Data streamlining overcomes bandwidth limitations
60-95% Reduction of WAN Utilization
Request Reconstructed
Files & Data Data Files & Data
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
• Requests go directly from the client to the server
• Steelhead auto-intercepts response, and segments data
• Only new bytes compressed & sent over the WAN
• 16-Byte references communicate megabytes of existing data
• Remote Steelhead reconstructs data and delivers it to the client
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Transport streamlining overcomes TCP limitations
The net effect is a 60-98% reduction in round trips
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
Make TCP payload bigger
16KB Repack payload
to with references
100KB+
References
Data
New data
From 100KB+ to Virtual 1MB+
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Application streamlining overcomes application 17
protocol limitations
Typical application inefficiency
Open
FID
WAN
Read 1
Read 2
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
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Application streamlining overcomes application 18
protocol limitations
Request
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
Steelhead completes
transaction locally
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Application streamlining overcomes application 19
protocol limitations
The net effect is 65-98% reduction in WAN round trips
Optimized WAN Transfer
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
Steelhead completes
transaction locally
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Riverbed’s approach accelerates all TCP applications
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Management Streamlining
Transparency & high availability
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More on transparent deployment
Proxy TCP
WAN
DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE
• No agents required on clients or servers
• No tunnels need to be configured
• Un-optimized traffic is automatically passed through
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Steelhead appliances are designed for easy network integration
• 4-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet cards
Deployment Flexibility • TCP connection forwarding
• Diverse in-path and out-of-path deployment options
Software-based
• Serial clustering
Redundancy • Parallel clustering
• Hot backups
• Fail-to-wire Ethernet cards
Hardware-based
• Dual power supply (optional)
Redundancy
• RAID (optional)
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Sample deployment (in-path)
LAN
In-path with optional failover unit Steelhead
Appliances 2, 3, 4, … NAS
L2 Switch
WAN or VPN
WAN/VPN
File
Router Servers
Firewall
or VPN
Mail
Server
In-path with 4-port card LAN
NAS
Router Switch Router
WAN/VPN
File
Router Switch Router Servers
Mail
Central Management Server
Console (Optional)
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Sample deployment (additional options)
Asymmetric routing
Steelhead SH1
WAN/VPN
Steelhead SH2
Out-of-path (clustering optional)
L4 Switch
NAS
WAN/VPN
File
Router Servers
Firewall
or VPN
Steelhead Mail
Appliances CLI & Server
web-based
mgmt.
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PRIMARY DESIGN CENTER SALES OFFICE
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Osaka, Japan Paris, France
EUROPEAN SERVICE CENTER
Q.A. SH 5010 Reading, UK
Bangalore India
SH 2010
Filer SH 2010
768 kbps
SH 3010 E1
Filer
3x T1
2x T1
VPN
Internet EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION HUB
Intelsat Cork, Ireland
256
255 kbps Uplink
kbps SH 5010
1.5 Mbps Downlink Private
800 ms RTT Network
PROJECT SITE T3
T3
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (serverless)
DSL
PRIMARY
DATA CENTER
Denver, CO
SH 5010 SH 5010 DISASTER RECOVERY SITE
Jersey City, New Jersey
SH 510 OC-3
Storage
Storage
Filers Tape SH 5010
Backup
File Web Mail File Web Mail
SH CMC Servers Servers Servers
Servers Servers Servers
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RiOS supports centralized management
Riverbed Central Management Console
• Touchless configuration
• Aggregated reporting
• Group or individual configurations
• Scheduled operations
• Customizable reports and displays
• SNMP traps
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Riverbed provides world-class expertise & support
• Worldwide 24x7 availability
• Platinum, Gold, and Silver support levels
• Our team is relentlessly focused on customer success
Highly valued and praised by customers
“Deploying Steelhead appliances has been quick
and easy – they can usually be installed in 15
minutes. When we had an issue that required
technical support, they were fantastic and stuck
with us until it was resolved.
I’m very impressed with Riverbed’s support
team, and recommend them highly.”
– IT Director, Large Engineering Company
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Steelhead appliances are sized for your offices
Small Office Mid-Size Office Data Center/HQ Systemwide
Visibility/Reporting
Riverbed Central
Management System
520 2020 5010
• 1 Mbps optimized throughput • 10 Mbps optimized throughput • 45 Mbps Kbps optimized
• 300 optimized TCP • 2000 optimized TCP connections throughput
connections • 4,500 optimized TCP
connections
200
• 1 Mbps optimized throughput
• 75 optimized TCP connections 1020 3010/3510
• 2 Mbps Kbps optimized • 10/20 Mbps Kbps optimized
throughput throughput
• 625 optimized TCP connections • 2400/2400 optimized TCP
connections
100
• 1 Mbps optimized throughput
• 25 optimized TCP connections
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In summary, Riverbed will accelerate your business
Accelerates all key applications by up to 100x
over the WAN
WAN Reduces bandwidth utilization by 60% to 95%
Enables successful IT consolidation
Hundreds of customers in production today
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