Riverbed Technology (RVBD)

Management Streamlining

Management Streamlining allows for simplified implementation and administration of our Steelhead products. Unlike alternative approaches which usually require changes to clients, servers, routers and switches or the addition of an overlay network of tunnels, Steelhead products are designed to be transparently installed in existing IT infrastructure with minimal administration. The auto-discovery capabilities of RiOS allow our Steelhead products to identify automatically all Steelhead products on the WAN, typically without a need to reconfigure any network infrastructure. Our products automatically intercept WAN traffic without any further configuration requirements to applications, clients, or other network infrastructure, while allowing non-optimized traffic to simply pass through.

Our RiOS software provides IT administrators with simplified management of Steelhead products through Command Line Interface (CLI), Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an optional Central Management Console.

Other key elements of Management Streamlining include touchless configuration options, over-the-wire software upgrades for Steelhead products, singular and grouped appliance management and customizable reporting analytics.

Management Streamlining

Management Streamlining

Management Streamlining allows for simplified implementation and administration of our Steelhead products. Unlike alternative approaches which usually require changes to clients, servers, routers and switches or the addition of an overlay network of tunnels, Steelhead products are designed to be transparently installed in existing IT infrastructure with minimal administration. The auto-discovery

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capabilities of RiOS allow our Steelhead products to identify automatically all Steelhead products on the WAN, typically without a need to reconfigure any network infrastructure. Our products automatically intercept WAN traffic without any further configuration requirements to applications, clients, or other network infrastructure, while allowing non-optimized traffic to simply pass through.

Our RiOS software provides IT administrators with simplified management of Steelhead products through Command Line Interface (CLI), Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an optional Central Management Console.

Other key elements of Management Streamlining include touchless configuration options, over-the-wire software upgrades for Steelhead products, singular and grouped appliance management and customizable reporting analytics.

Management Streamlining

Management Streamlining allows for simplified implementation and administration of our Steelhead products. Unlike alternative approaches which usually require
changes to clients, servers, routers and switches or the addition of an overlay network of tunnels, Steelhead products are designed to be transparently installed in existing IT infrastructure with minimal administration. The auto-discovery

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capabilities of RiOS allow our Steelhead products to identify automatically all Steelhead products on the WAN, typically without a need to reconfigure any network
infrastructure. Our products automatically intercept WAN traffic without any further configuration requirements to applications, clients, or other network infrastructure, while allowing non-optimized traffic to simply pass through.

Management Streamlining

Management Streamlining allows for simplified implementation and administration of our Steelhead appliances. Unlike alternative approaches which usually require changes to clients, servers, routers and switches or the addition of an overlay network of tunnels, Steelhead appliances are designed to be transparently installed in existing IT infrastructure with minimal administration. The auto-discovery capabilities of RiOS allow our Steelhead appliances to identify automatically all Steelhead appliances on the WAN, typically without a need to reconfigure any network infrastructure. Our appliances automatically intercept WAN traffic without any further configuration requirements to applications, clients, or other network infrastructure, while allowing non-optimized traffic to simply pass through.

Our RiOS software provides IT administrators with simplified management of Steelhead appliances through Command Line Interface (CLI), Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an optional Central Management Console.

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Other key elements of Management Streamlining include touchless configuration options, over-the-wire software upgrades for Steelhead appliances, singular and grouped appliance management and customizable reporting analytics.