Steelhead Appliance

[bgilbert]

Per the Aruba wireless example, attached is a solution brief covering the combined Aruba plus Riverbed solution. Hopefully, we will get a couple of customer responses with their experience of using Riverbed + wireless.

Message Edited by bgilbert on 01-28-2009 04:37 PM

[bgilbert]

I am not only a Riverbed employee, I am also a customer

Seriously, all Riverbed employees that reside at Riverbed's corporate HQ in San Francisco have Steelhead Mobile installed on their laptop or dekstop machine. Riverbed uses wirless networking technology from Aruba Networks and the results is not only interoperability, but the performance of wirleless LAN access to the local servers is accelerated. Wireless inherently adds latency to the LAN and Steelhead Mobile mitigates this latency with the acceleration techniques we all know.

We also have many other customers using Steelhead Mobile with both wireless LAN environments as well as broadband wireless connections via EVDO modems, etc. Travis Klasna at JEO consulting actually has a laptop with Steelhead Mobile, which he tethers to a Motorola Krazr cell phone for internet connectivity. Travis has reported good acceleration.

Bob

Message Edited by bgilbert on 01-28-2009 04:35 PM

[Anon1093]

One more topic for the road...


Does anyone have a partner or client that has used Steelhead Mobile (or RiOS) with a wireless mesh network and is able to take advantage of optimization in any way?

The app and protocol are not as important as the fact that a case exists where it was done or is planned.

- Anything resembling WiFi is optimal but doesn't have to be standards-based (i.e. 802.11a/b/g), so integration of SMC or RiOS via ASIC, NVRAM microkernel, or Windows Mobile, or just mobile laptops in the field is fine.


-thatriverbedguy