Steelhead Mobile accelerates enterprise applications for remote users to improve productivity and collaboration for globally distributed teams. Organizations and workers have come to expect a dip in productivity and performance when accessing IT resources remotely. Download this Performance Brief and discover how Steelhead Mobile can help overcome these limitations and deliver LAN-like speed to remote users.
Performance Brief: Mobile Application Acceleration® ®TEST Summary Riverbed Steelhead Mobile Accelerates Applications ?? Accelerates Windows file sharing up to for Mobile Workers 95x with a 99% reduction in bandwidth utilization Steelhead Mobile Accelerates Applications Wherever Workers Connect?? Improves Microsoft Exchange email attach- Steelhead Mobile accelerates enterprise applications for remote users to improve productivity and ment transmission up to 54x and reduces collaboration for globally distributed teams. Organizations and workers have come to expect a dip in traffic by up to 97% productivity and performance when accessing IT resources remotely, but Steelhead Mobile can help overcome these limitations and deliver LAN-like speed to remote users. ?? Improves SharePoint HTTP (wget) file save performance by up to 63x with up to a Combining mobility and performance, Steelhead Mobile delivers on the promise of global flexibility by 99% reduction in traffic virtually eliminating distance and bandwidth constraints for applications. Companies can leverage the ?? Speeds application performance over right staff for projects regardless of geography, helping ensure success and giving them a competitive wireless data cards and VPNs edge in the marketplace. Riverbed takes a multi-tiered approach to optimization to address the problems of bandwidth, latency and application protocol inefficiencies through a unified solution. Steelhead Mobile utilizes industry-leading data streamlining and transport streamlining to provide data reduction, compression, and trans-port protocol optimization. Enterprises can reduce traffic on the WAN by as much as 95% and transport layer roundtrips by up to 98%, allowing organizations to successfully deliver faster application perfor-mance while avoiding bandwidth saturation. By extending the same technology utilized in the award-winning Steelhead appliances, Steelhead Mobile delivers unparalleled performance gains to the mobile workforce. Steelhead Mobile accelerates all the key enterprise applications and provides even faster performance gains through its application modules, which specifically target inefficiencies for commonly used protocols. This results in further performance gains for customers and can eliminate up to 98% of application traffic roundtrips over the WAN.
Accelerating Remote Access for Key Enterprise ApplicationsWindows File Sharing (CIFS). Windows file sharing is often reduced to the point of being unusable for remote users. Steelhead Mobile frees mobile workers by providing targeted CIFS protocol optimizations in addition to data streamlining and transport streamlining. The resulting performance gains accelerate CIFS traffic by up to 95x to enhance user productivity and enable collaboration for distributed workers. Microsoft Exchange (MAPI). Steelhead Mobile is the only wide-area data services (WDS) solution on the market that provides a MAPI protocol optimization for Exchange 2003. Leveraging Riverbed's data reduction and transport optimization capabilities in conjunction with application streamlining for Exchange creates unparalleled performance gains for remote Exchange users. The unique multi-tiered Steelhead optimization approach makes sharing documents via email almost instantaneous while free-ing up the WAN link for other applications.Web Applications (HTTP). Enterprises are utilizing HTTP for everything from e-commerce to mission- T e s t i n g s c e n a r i o critical applications. Through its data streamlining and transport streamlining capability, Steelhead Mobile delivers optimizations for HTTP to overcome protocol chattiness and latency for web-based These tests were performed using applications. As a result, the user experience improves dramatically and the transaction throughput of a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise web services increases. With Steelhead Mobile, organizations can deliver centralized web applications Edition running Microsoft Exchange to the mobile workforce across global environments without sacrificing performance. 2003 Server, SharePoint Services 2.0 and Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0. Typical Steelhead Mobile Deployment ArchitectureMaintain TCP sessions Initiate new TCP sessions Maintain TCP sessionsThe client ran Windows XP Profes-sional with a default configuration of the Steelhead Mobile client version 1.0.0.36. WANPerformance tests were run using a 256k or T1 (1536k) WAN link with DATA CENTER ... [download for more]
