Riverbed Extends Scale Of WAN Optimisation For Large Data Centres

Riverbed Technology, an IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced increased scalability and flexibility for large-scale wide area network (WAN) optimisation deployments with the introduction of the new Interceptor 9350 appliance and enhanced Riverbed software. The Interceptor allows enterprise customers to scale their WAN optimisation solution to support hundreds of end users and very large bandwidth WAN connections across an enterprise.

Interceptor is a specialised clustering device for high-capacity, high-availability Steelhead appliance deployments. The Interceptor extends the scaling and performance capabilities of Steelhead appliances to meet the requirements of very large data centre environments. The Interceptor allows clusters of up to 25 Steelhead appliances to work together seamlessly and simplifies network setup, while offering a wide choice of high-availability configurations to support large enterprise networks.

Riverbed Interceptor 9350 is designed to provide increased benefits, including enhanced scalability to drive greater throughput and increased capacity to support more users. The new Interceptor, in comparison to the previous model, provides up to 3X more throughput while still supporting up to one million concurrent connections as per company claims. In addition, the new Interceptor supports up to three 10G network interface cards (NIC), which support customers’ taking advantage of modern data centre designs.

Interceptor 9350 Features

The Interceptor 9350 supports up to 12 Gbps of ingress and egress traffic, which enables customers to provide WAN optimisation for large data centre requirements. This is especially important in high-throughput data replication and disaster recovery designs.

Interceptor appliances can be configured with up to four onboard and 16 additional Gigabit Ethernet ports to provide maximum scalability on networks with multi-router ingress/ egress.

Interceptor 2.0 Software Provides Transparency Support

Interceptor appliances automatically work with the full IP address and port transparency features in Steelhead appliances. The Interceptor’s high-availability and scalability features allow customers that deploy Steelhead appliances in full transparency mode to have enhanced visibility into the original source and destination IP addresses and ports.

The Interceptor 9350 is now generally available.