WDS Technology

Riverbed® Technology Inc. is the leading firm in the Wide-Area Data Services (WDS) solutions segment. Riverbed Steelhead® equipment enables users of Wide Area Networks (WAN) to obtain the same level of performance as that obtained with a Local Area Network (LAN). Speeding Up Business Processes By furnishing a high degree of optimization, Wide-Area Data Services is dramatically transforming the way in which corporate users work nowadays by making it possible, for the first time, for a geographically distributed workforce to act as if all workers were in the same building, with no restrictions on the exchange of files, images, messages, and access to applications.

The use of this type of solution also makes possible a considerable simplification of the IT infrastructure with significant reductions in operational costs and investments in this area.

Steelhead equipment is already in use in various business segments of large firms (Fortune 5, Global 100), and it has received many awards for its superior quality.

Benefits

Up to 100% increase in performance of TCP/IP applications in WAN networks. File and e-mail updates in seconds. Functions of QoS with additional optimization for UDP applications;

Improvement in WAN communications, centralizing and consolidating application servers, data storage, and e-mail, with no decline in performance;

Reduction of 60% to 95% in the use of WAN bandwidth,  making future expansions unnecessary;

Secure backups in minutes, giving firms more adequate time slots. Elimination of backup servers and data storage on tape through centralization of equipment.