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Thanks Bob, I've had a great time being here.

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Thanks for the details Joe. I appreciate you joining the program today!
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Before we summarize, there is one more feature that I think is also worth mentioning, link based licensing. Link-based licensing provides administrators with even greater control of their Steelhead Mobile 2.0 deployments by providing them with the ability to specify the cases where optimization and license usage should occur. Licensing rules can be defined on an adapter-by-adapter basis and are powerful enough to define usage based on criteria such as wired vs. wireless, LAN vs. VPN or 3G access vs. dial-up. In addition to the many features we've been discussing today we've also made some great improvements to the Client UI that gives users of visible deployments even more information about the impact that Steelhead Mobile 2.0 is having on their machines.

To summarize, the security, speed, and simplicity of Steelhead Mobile 2.0 further extend the benefits of Riverbed optimization and acceleration leadership to the mobile worker. Use these great new features to enable secure acceleration, improve application performance, and minimize management overhead. Please check out www.riverbed.com to see a live demo of Steelhead Mobile in action and of course, please continue to post your questions and comments about all things WDS and Riverbed related here in WDS Forums.
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Joe, this is a ton of new features for a single software update. Would you please summarize what Steelhead Mobile 2.0 provides and how can our listeners find out more?
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Steelhead Mobile 2.0 provides more efficient license and optimization management through enhanced Steelhead auto-detection. With this feature the Mobile client is able to identify all Steelhead appliances on the WAN and can determine if there are is a Steelhead appliance present in the local network, if so, it will release the license to the pool and rely upon the branch appliance for optimization based on its policy settings. The benefit of this is simple, greater license flexibility. By releasing more licenses to the field, organizations can share a single license among an even greater number of users.
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Joe, so far we have covered SSL acceleration, Exchange 2007 acceleration, and Oracle forms optimization. It looks like Riverbed continues to innovate in this mobile worker market. Let s shift gears from acceleration to this feature you call Steelhead Auto-Detection, what is this and what is the benefit?
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One of the challenges in working with the Oracle E-Business Suite is that Oracle scrambles the traffic it sends over the WAN. Riverbed being the only vendor that has Oracle-specific optimization that can decrypt this traffic and optimize it. We accomplish this by also working at the application layer, optimizing Oracle Forms traffic. In fact, our Beta customers were seeing a 9-10x performance improvement in their Oracle traffic after installing Steelhead Mobile 2.0.
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Moving down the list of Mobile 2.0, what is Oracle forms optimization? Specifically, how does this impact performance of Oracle?
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Steelhead Mobile 2.0, Riverbed is the first wide-area data services (WDS) vendor to deliver a protocol optimization specifically for MAPI 2007. Steelhead Mobile 2.0 recognizes unencrypted MAPI 2007 traffic and applies specific Layer 7 application protocol latency enhancements to significantly improve performance, ensuring that performance considerations do not stand in the way of software upgrades. This is made possible both by the ongoing development for MAPI/Exchange that has taken place with the Steelhead appliance and through Riverbeds membership in the Microsoft Protocol Optimization Licensing Program (POLP), which gave us an even more detailed view into the underpinnings of this widely used protocol.
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Joe, you also mentioned Microsoft Exchange 2007 acceleration. What is the impact for mobile workers that use Exchange and how does this differ from what other mobile WAN acceleration products offer?
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