Riverbed Technology (RVBD)

Application Streamlining

Application Streamlining provides a further mechanism to enhance the performance of specific applications. Many applications were designed for use over a LAN and require hundreds to thousands of interactions between client and server to execute even simple requests, such as opening a file. By understanding the semantics of particular application protocols, Steelhead products reduce chattiness, collapsing hundreds of client-server interactions into a few round trips over the WAN.

While most important business applications that run over TCP immediately benefit from Data Streamlining and Transport Streamlining, Application Streamlining enables us to add additional acceleration for specific applications. We have built specific Application Streamlining modules that

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support file, e-mail, web, ERP, and database application protocols (CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, Oracle Forms, SSL, Lotus Notes, NFS and MS-SQL and others). For example we have also built special modules to address protocol inefficiencies for common storage back-up and replication applications. We believe these applications are especially inefficient in wide-area distributed computing. We have designed our architecture to enable additional Application Streamlining modules to be incorporated easily over time.

Application Streamlining

Application Streamlining provides a further mechanism to enhance the performance of specific applications. Many applications were designed for use over a LAN and require hundreds to thousands of interactions between client and server to execute even simple requests, such as opening a file. By understanding the semantics of particular application protocols, Steelhead products reduce chattiness, collapsing hundreds of client-server interactions into a few round trips over the WAN.

While most important business applications that run over TCP immediately benefit from Data Streamlining and Transport Streamlining, Application Streamlining enables us to add additional acceleration for specific applications. We have built specific Application Streamlining modules that support file, e-mail, web, ERP, and database application protocols (CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, Oracle 11i, SSL, NFS and MS-SQL). We have also built special modules to address protocol inefficiencies for common storage back-up and replication applications. We believe these applications are especially inefficient in wide-area distributed computing. We have designed our architecture to enable additional Application Streamlining modules to be incorporated easily over time.

Application Streamlining

Application Streamlining provides a further mechanism to enhance the performance of specific applications. Many applications were designed for use over a LAN and require hundreds to thousands of interactions between client and server to execute even simple requests, such as opening a file. By understanding the semantics of particular application protocols, Steelhead appliances reduce chattiness, collapsing hundreds of client-server interactions into a few round trips over the WAN.

While most important business applications that run over TCP immediately benefit from Data Streamlining and Transport Streamlining, Application Streamlining enables us to add additional acceleration for specific applications. We have built specific Application Streamlining modules that support file, E-mail, web and database application protocols (CIFS, MAPI, HTTP and MS-SQL). We have also built special modules to address protocol inefficiencies for common storage back-up and replication applications. We believe these applications are especially inefficient in wide-area distributed computing. We have designed our architecture to enable additional Application Streamlining modules to be incorporated easily over time.

Application Streamlining also provides for disconnected operations via the PFS feature. Using PFS, IT managers can provide remote users with policy-based access to files even during WAN failures.