Riverbed Technology (RVBD)

Deployment of Point Products

Our competitors have designed products that fail to address all of the root causes of wide-area distributed computing problems for a broad range of applications. Such products, which we refer to as point products, include most WAN optimization products, which typically offer some combination of compression, TCP optimization and quality-of-service functions, and can result in a reduction of network congestion and more efficient utilization of bandwidth. However, such WAN optimization products typically do not address application chattiness as comprehensively as we do and many do not provide for continued access to remote files during WAN failures.

In addition to their limited application, these point products often involve deployment and operational complexities that cause network disruption, inefficiency, and difficulties scaling to large numbers of locations. They may often require server or client re-configuration, or complex pre-installation configuration that demands significant amounts of time from IT personnel.

Over time, point product vendors have attempted to incorporate additional functionality to solve for their limitations. These amalgamations of legacy approaches with additional layers of features often suffer from the same underlying issues as their legacy underpinnings: insufficient performance improvement over a broad spectrum of data networking traffic, scaling difficulties, and deployment and operational complexity.

Deployment of Point Products

Our competitors have designed products that fail to address all of the root causes of wide-area distributed computing problems for a broad range of applications. Such products, which we refer to as point products, include:

In addition to their limited application, these point products often involve deployment and operational complexities that cause network disruption, and inefficiency, and difficulties scaling to large numbers of locations. They may often require server or client re-configuration, or complex pre-installation configuration that demands significant amounts of time from IT personnel.

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Over time, point-product vendors have attempted to incorporate additional functionality to solve for their limitations. These amalgamations of legacy approaches with additional layers of features often suffer from the same underlying issues with their legacy underpinnings; insufficient performance improvement over a broad spectrum of data networking traffic, scaling difficulties, and deployment and operational complexity.

Deployment of Point Products

Our competitors have designed products that fail to address all of the root causes of wide-area distributed computing problems for a broad range of applications. Such products, which we refer to as point products, include:

In addition to their limited application, these point products often involve deployment and operational complexities that cause network disruption and inefficiency. They may often require server or client re-configuration, or complex pre-installation configuration that demands significant amounts of time from IT personnel.

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