Key Features
Steelhead Appliances
• Cost-effective deployment – 12 appliance models that scale to meet the deployment needs of any office
• Application acceleration – Accelerate the broadest range of applications that are critical to business
• Simplicity – Transparently deploy in minutes without changes to applications, users, routers, or other IT infrastructure
• Scalability – One of the most scalable acceleration solution available on the market, supporting thousands of users on one device
• Reporting – At-a-glance reporting on optimisation and traffic visibility with support for Netflow export.
Steelhead Mobile Software
• Acceleration directly to any PC – Mobile workers, home offices, and very small branch offices.
• Fully transparent – Deploy without any input, management, or monitoring from end users. Transparent to network connectivity or VPN.
Steelhead Interceptor
• Massive scaling – With the optional Interceptor, enterprises can enable massive clustered deployments of Steelhead appliances. Up to 4 Gbps of optimised throughput and up to 1,000,000 concurrent connections can be optimised simultaneously.
Central Management Console
• Deployment – Enable touchless configuration of new appliances. Control policies, optimisation rules, QoS configuration, and more.
• Management – Enable a single management interface for enterprise deployments of Steelhead appliances. One-touch software upgrades, health alerts, job scheduler and optimisation performance can all be controlled centrally.
• Visibility – Enables real-time visibility into application and WAN performance. Configure reporting and policies for Netflow export.
Steelhead Mobile Controller
• Deployment – Enable automated deployment of Steelhead Mobile onto remote machines. Control policies, optimization rules, and more.
• Management – Access a single-source for monitoring and license management. One-touch software upgrades, health alerts, and optimisation performance can be controlled centrally.
• Visibility – Enables real-time visibility into application and WAN performance. Customisable reporting is available.
Additional Features
Network Integration and Deployment Options
• Transparency – Export real-time flows from a Steelhead appliance to a third-party Netflow collector, giving full visibility into WAN traffic by source, destination, IP address, application port, and more
• Auto discovery – Appliances automatically find in-path peers in the network, with no tunnel configurations required
• Deployment – Installs transparently in-line or as a “one arm” attachment to routers/switches with direct configuration, WCCP, PBR, and L4 switch redirection modes
• Multi-port interfaces – 4 Port GigE Card available (optional on all rackable
models); Up to 3 cards (12 ports total) per Steelhead appliance
• Asymmetric routing – Asymmetric route detection and connection forwarding for support of route asymmetry on both the client and server sides
• Network agnostic – Full mesh, hub and spoke, and multi-drop topologies
supported; MPLS, IP VPN, Satellite, Frame, ATM and any other IP transport
supported
• Seamless integration – Works easily with existing QoS, VoIP, video conferencing and other real-time traffic
Management and Policy
• Configuration – Web UI, CLI, and Central Management Console (CMC),
Steelhead Management Console (SMC)
• Marking – DSCP, port, and VLAN mapping and/or preservation. Automatic
port-to-application mapping for reporting
• Reporting – Robust real-time performance statistics gathering, export, and
graphical reporting; Local, CMC, SMC, and Syslog logging; Report on traffic
by QoS class, application, and more; SNMP support
• Support complexity – Enable complex redundant deployment, even in environments with asymmetric routing.
• Optimisation policy – Per-application admission and optimization controls
• Bandwidth management – HFSC-based QoS allows for application prioritization, low-latency queuing for VoIP; Settable WAN bandwidth rate controls included
High Availability and Security
• Clustering – Serial (in-path), parallel (out-of-path), or virtual in-path clustering for massive scalability
• Fail-to-wire – Ensures no loss in network connectivity in the event of device failure
• N:1 and 1:1 redundancy – Hot-standby redundancy and N:1 clustering
• Redundant disk and power – Available RAID and dual power supplies on
larger models
• Security – RADIUS and TACACS+ support for authenticating access. Configurable IPSec encryption for WAN traffic
• Dual image SW upgrades – Schedule over-the-wire software upgrades with dual image, rollback, and scheduled restart/reboot
Security
• SSL acceleration that maintains traffic encryption without breaking the preferred trust model
• RADIUS and TACACS+ support for authenticating access
• Configurable IPSec encryption for WAN traffic
• Secure registration ensures only approved devices communicate with the central management console (CMC)
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