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These excerpts taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 23, 2009. Products Our Steelhead appliances consist of our RiOS proprietary software that is embedded on a general purpose hardware computing platform. Our line of Steelhead appliances addresses the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments to large headquarters and datacenter locations. The U.S. list prices for our current 13 Steelhead appliance models range from $3,495 to $129,995. In addition to the functionality described for RiOS, all Steelhead appliances now support the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), a virtualized environment within Steelhead appliances upon which 3rd party applications can be installed. RSP benefits customers by further enabling branch office IT consolidation; applications or services that require local deployment (for example, print services that must remain functional in the event of a WAN outage) can be deployed on the already installed Steelhead appliance, which enables the decommissioning of a dedicated print server in the branch.
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Table of ContentsIn September 2008 we introduced the latest implementation of RSP in conjunction with version 5.5 of RiOS. RSP runs within the Steelhead appliances, and now supports up to five third party applications or services, including Microsoft Windows Server, print server, DNS/DHCP, security, video and selected other packages. Over time we expect additional products and services to become available for installation on RSP. The RSP software license costs $995, and requires a memory upgrade which costs $795. Our Central Management Console (CMC) is an optional product designed to centrally manage many Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying, configuring, monitoring, reporting and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances (one CMC can manage up to 500 Steelhead appliances). The U.S. list prices of our CMC appliances currently range from $4,995 to $49,995. Our Interceptor® is a complementary product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in complex, high traffic data center environments without requiring complex network reconfiguration, making the deployment of a Riverbed-based solution simpler, faster and more scalable than alternatives. The U.S. list price of our Interceptor appliance is currently $34,995. Steelhead Mobile is a software-only version of RiOS designed to run on Windows® laptop or desktop machines. Steelhead Mobile has the same architecture as Steelhead appliances, with Data, Transport and Application Streamlining. Steelhead Mobile is sold in two components: The Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC) has a base list price of $12,995 and includes a license for up to thirty (30) concurrent licenses for Steelhead Mobile software. The SMC is required, as is at least one Steelhead appliance which is typically deployed in the data center. The SMC handles licensing and the distribution of the Steelhead Mobile software packages. Each SMC has the capacity to manage up to 2,000 concurrent Steelhead Mobile users. Customers may purchase additional concurrent licenses as needed above the default 30 that come with the SMC. In addition to accelerating the performance of applications across the WAN, Steelhead and CMC products utilize our Management Streamlining technology to simplify deployment, configuration, management, and ongoing maintenance, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership of our products. Management Streamlining offers the following benefits:
Products Our Services Platform (RSP), a virtualized environment within Steelhead appliances upon which 3rd party applications can be installed. RSP benefits customers by further enabling branch office IT consolidation; applications or services that require local deployment (for example, print services that must remain functional in the event of a WAN outage) can be deployed on the already installed Steelhead appliance, which enables the decommissioning of a dedicated print server in the branch.
8 Table of ContentsIn September 2008 we introduced the latest implementation of RSP in conjunction with version 5.5 of RiOS. RSP runs Our enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in complex, high traffic data center environments without requiring complex network reconfiguration, making the deployment of a Riverbed-based solution simpler, faster and more scalable than alternatives. The U.S. list price of our Interceptor appliance is currently $34,995.
SIZE="2">Technology The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) is our proprietary software platform that provides the core intelligence for our
9 Table of ContentsData Streamlining SIZE="2">Our Data Streamlining technologies address bandwidth limitations in existing networks. Our patented approach can be applied to all data and applications that run over TCP to reduce bandwidth consumption by dramatically reducing the need to
Each end-user request for data is sent directly to the intended authoritative application server as opposed to a cache that Transport Streamlining round trips required to move a given amount of data over the WAN. We accomplish this by both increasing the default TCP payload and by filling the window with references to data rather than actual data. parameters based on real-time network characteristics and assigning priority for necessary packet resends due to packet loss. A component of Transport Streamlining, High Speed TCP, also addresses the TCP chattiness and latency that is particularly pronounced in high speed connections (for example OC-12 (622 Mbps)). Another component of transport streamlining, MXTCP, is designed to address private networks with packet loss. Application Streamlining enables us to add additional acceleration for specific applications. We have built specific Application Streamlining modules that
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Management Streamlining 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. SIZE="2">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. appliance management and customizable reporting analytics. These excerpts taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 15, 2008. Products Our Steelhead appliances consist of our RiOS proprietary software that is embedded on a general purpose hardware computing platform. Our line of Steelhead appliances addresses the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments to large headquarters and datacenter locations. The U.S. list prices for our 13 Steelhead appliance models currently range from $3,495 to $119,995. Our Central Management Console (CMC) is a complementary product designed to centrally manage many Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying,
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Table of Contentsconfiguring, monitoring, reporting and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances. The U.S. list prices of our CMC appliances currently range from $4,995 to $49,995. Our InterceptorTM is a complementary product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in complex, high traffic data center environments without requiring complex network reconfiguration, making the deployment of a Riverbed-based solution simpler, faster and more scalable than alternatives. The U.S. list price of our Interceptor appliance is currently $34,995. In addition to accelerating the performance of applications across the WAN, Steelhead and CMC products utilize our Management Streamlining technology to simplify deployment, configuration, management, and ongoing maintenance, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership of our products. Management Streamlining offers the following benefits:
In August 2007, we launched Steelhead Mobile, a software product that incorporates RiOS to accelerate the performance of applications and access to data from mobile worker laptops. The U.S. list price of a Steelhead Mobile software license is approximately $350 per concurrently connected end-user. A customer must have at least one Steelhead Appliance in their network to which Steelhead Mobile will connect. A Steelhead Mobile Controller appliance is used to manage Steelhead Mobile connections. The U.S. list price for a Steelhead Mobile Controller bundled with 30 Steelhead Mobile licenses is currently $12,995. Products Our Our
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Our InterceptorTMSIZE="2"> is a complementary product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in complex, high traffic data center environments without requiring complex network reconfiguration, making the deployment
mobile worker laptops. The U.S. list price of a Steelhead Mobile software license is approximately $350 per concurrently connected end-user. A customer must have at least one Steelhead Appliance in their network to which Steelhead Mobile will connect. A Steelhead Mobile Controller appliance is used to manage Steelhead Mobile connections. The U.S. list price for a Steelhead Mobile Controller bundled with 30 Steelhead Mobile licenses is currently $12,995. The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) is our proprietary Data Streamlining over TCP to reduce bandwidth consumption by dramatically reducing the need to send the same data multiple times over the WAN. Data Streamlining also supports the classification of individual data packets for quality-of-service and route control. In a non-optimized WAN setting, each time data is requested by a remote user, all of the data must be sent across the WAN, regardless of whether
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Each end-user request for data is sent directly to the intended authoritative application server as opposed to a cache that typically utilizes a Transport Streamlining round trips required to move a given amount of data over the WAN. We accomplish this by both increasing the default TCP payload and by filling the window with references to data rather than actual data. parameters based on real-time network characteristics and assigning priority for necessary packet resends due to packet loss. A component of Transport Streamlining, High Speed TCP, also addresses the TCP chattiness and latency that is particularly pronounced in high speed connections (for example OC-12 (622 Mbps)). Another component of transport streamlining, MXTCP, is designed to address private networks with packet loss. 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. Management Streamlining Management Streamlining allows for simplified implementation and administration of our Steelhead products. Unlike alternative approaches which usually require
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and an optional Central Management Console. Other key elements of Management Streamlining include touchless configuration options, over-the-wire This excerpt taken from the RVBD 10-K filed Feb 9, 2007. Products Our Steelhead appliances consist of our RiOS proprietary software that is embedded on a general purpose hardware computing platform. Our line of Steelhead appliances addresses the needs of customers ranging from small office deployments to large headquarters and datacenter locations. The U.S. list prices for our ten Steelhead appliance models currently range from $3,495 to $119,995. Our Central Management Console (CMC) is a complementary product designed to centrally manage many Steelhead appliances distributed across a WAN, simplifying the tasks of deploying, configuring, monitoring, reporting and upgrading large numbers of Steelhead appliances. The U.S. list prices of our CMC appliances currently range from $4,995 to $49,995.
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Table of ContentsOur InterceptorTM is a complementary product designed to enable flexible and scalable deployment of a cluster of Steelhead appliances in complex, high traffic data center environments without requiring complex network reconfiguration, making the deployment of a Riverbed-based solution simpler, faster and more scalable than alternatives. The U.S. list price of our Interceptor appliance is currently $49,995. In addition to accelerating the performance of applications across the WAN, Steelhead and CMC appliances utilize our Management Streamlining technology to simplify deployment, configuration, management, and ongoing maintenance, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership of our products. Management Streamlining offers the following benefits:
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