Optimize WAN Bandwidth

Reduce Network Traffic with WAN Bandwidth Optimization

Many enterprises use WAN bandwidth optimization in order to cut costs and relieve network congestion. But typical WAN optimization products only reduce network traffic by ten or twenty percent. In contrast, a wide-area data services (WDS) solution can reduce network utilization typically by 60 to 95%.

Data Streamlining provides better bandwidth optimization

Riverbed removes repetitive traffic from your WAN through patent-pending Data Streamlining algorithms. Data Streamlining stores your WAN traffic on disk in a proprietary, application-independent form that can be reused by any application, any file or any user that sends or receives the same data. Whether a client requests a file that has been renamed, emails an attachment or uses another application like FTP or a Web-based application, any traffic that is generated that has been across the network before will not be retransmitted.

Instead, only a small reference to the data is sent to the Riverbed Steelhead appliance on the opposite side of the network. Riverbed's references are 16 bytes in length, yet can represent megabytes of data, which results in high levels of WAN bandwidth optimization.

Riverbed delivers more than just WAN optimization

Unlike WAN optimization products, Riverbed Steelhead appliances deliver much more than reduced network traffic. Riverbed not only provides the best WAN optimization available today, but also improves the throughput of your applications - because it's more than limited network bandwidth that slows down your applications. Most vendors focused on WAN bandwidth optimization do not offer true application acceleration, which are different and distinct challenges. Riverbed leads the pack on both.