Riverbed

Riverbed function

• tcp packet compression
• scalable data referencing and de-duplication
• after data flows steel head looks for binary data and keep the pointer. 
• 60 to 90 % reduction in traffic
• transaction prediction ( send whole file at remote riverbed befor server ack)

             

Riverbed technology overview

Deduplication:  In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Related and somewhat synonymous terms are intelligent (data) compression and single-instance (data) storage.

Three appliance of riverbed

• riverbed wan accelerators
• Data consolidation (cosolidated back to data center)

• Riverbed whitewater  (disaster recover)
• tape b/u replacement / push to cloud

• Riverbed Granite   (if wan goes of and no access to DC to get consolidated data)
• Push data back to local share.
• smc ( steel head mobile controller)  - steel head for one user
• for individual user or soho user 

Riverdbed - Steelhead connectivity details