riverbed technology leading-edge performance for wide-area data services meta infotech mumbai, india

Riverbed Technology

Leading-edge performance for Wide-area Data Services

Meta InfotechMumbai, India

© 2006 RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC – CONFIDENTIAL

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The business environment is changing

Increasing consolidation of IT Lower costs & easier to manage Guaranteed data protection

Increasing dependence on business applications

Increasing distribution of organizations 67% of employees work in a location other than the

headquarters Globalization – global clients, global projects, global

offices


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Distributed offices present new IT challenges

Lost Profit

Userfrustration & mutiny Seconds of “wait time”

becomes minutes…hours…days.

Users create work-arounds to avoid corporate applications

Users can’t get the job done

Applications are just too slow

Small tasks become big ones

IT is focused on fire-fighting

Costlyinfrastructure

upgrades Servers Bandwidth Storage Implementation


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Steelhead™ appliances solve these problems

“Makes 3000 Miles…feel like 30 Feet”

WAN

• Eliminates the need for remote infrastructure• Easy to deploy

No changes to client/servers No changes to IP addresses or QoS markings

• Increases user and IT productivity• Accelerates applications • Saves bandwidth

DATA CENTER

BRANCH OFFICE

BRANCH OFFICE


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One product, many solutions

ApplicationAcceleration

SiteConsolidation

BandwidthOptimization

• Backup• Replication • Windows File Sharing• NFS• Email• FTP• Web• ERP/CRM• Lotus Notes• Custom apps

• File servers• Email servers• Filers• Remote storage• Tape backup equip.• Off-site media mgmt.• On-line backup• Outsourced services

• Expand narrow links• Fill up LFNs• Avoid WAN upgrades• Reduce WAN bandwidth

Riverbed SteelheadTM Appliances


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What customers say about Steelhead appliances

“ 70X faster AutoCAD file sharing”

Accelerates applications used on WANs

Increases capacity of WAN links “Bandwidth utilization cut by 80%”

“Microsoft Exchange servers consolidated to regional data centers with no performance hit”

Enables site consolidation for servers & storage

“IT able to open a new office with no IT infrastructure”


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What the industry says about Steelhead appliances

“I estimate the adoption of the Riverbed technology is saving the company an estimated $1 million annually”

–Erik Durand, Winner, NetworkWorld, Renovator Award Runner-Up, 2005

2005 & 2006 Product of the Year: Best WAN Accelerator

–InfoWorld Magazine

Riverbed Technology is a “clever solution to a universal problem that until now has not received a lot of attention”

–Riverbed wins 2005 WSJ Innovator Award

Maximizing remote application performance


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Distributed computing problems are converging

File Servers

Mail ServersWeb

Servers

FilersTapeBackup

Storage

WAN

File Servers Mail

Servers Filers

TapeBackup

DATA CENTERBRANCH OFFICE

• Application problems Web, e-mail, FTP, Notes, ERP,

database, etc… Slow response times Apps often not used…too slow

• Storage problems Data sprawl Islands of storage Backup & replication Compliance worries

• Networking problems Need “more bandwidth” Latency is a secret throughput killer


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Wide-area data services (WDS) is an integrated approach

Networking

Overcome bandwidth and latency constraints

Applications

LAN-like WAN performance

Storage

Consolidate and simplify

The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS)


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Application protocol inefficiencies

Transport protocol chattiness

Not enough bandwidth

If you don’t solve all three, users won’t see performance benefits.

The three root causes of poor wide-area application performance


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Data Streamlining

Transport Streamlining

Application Streamlining

Management Streamlining

• Eliminate redundant bytes from transfers

• Eliminate transport protocol inefficiencies

• Optimize application WAN performance

• Enable transparent deployment & central management

RiOS is an integrated approach

The Riverbed Optimization System


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The RiOS underlying framework

Initiate new TCP sessions

• Transparent deployment

• Auto-discovery, auto-interception

• No changes to clients, servers, or applications

Maintain TCP sessions

WAN

DATA CENTER BRANCH OFFICE

Maintain TCP sessions


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Data

WAN

Data streamlining overcomes bandwidth limitations

ReconstructedFiles & Data

RequestFiles & Data

• Steelhead auto-intercepts response, and segments data• Only new bytes compressed & sent over the WAN

60-95% Reduction of WAN Utilization

• Requests go directly from the client to the server


• 16-Byte references communicate megabytes of existing data• Remote Steelhead reconstructs data and delivers it to the client


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WAN

Transport streamlining overcomes TCP limitations

Make TCP payload bigger

16KB to 100KB+

The net effect is a 60-98% reduction in round trips


Repack payload with references

From 100KB+ to Virtual 1MB+

References

New dataData


17Application streamlining overcomes application protocol limitations

Typical application inefficiency

Open

FID

Read 1

Read 2

WAN



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Request

Steelhead completes transaction locally

Application streamlining overcomes application protocol limitations

WAN



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Optimized WAN Transfer

Steelhead completes transaction locally

The net effect is 65-98% reduction in WAN round trips

Application streamlining overcomes application protocol limitations

WAN



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Riverbed’s approach accelerates all TCP applications

Management Streamlining

Transparency & high availability


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WAN

More on transparent deployment

Proxy TCP

• No agents required on clients or servers

• No tunnels need to be configured

• Un-optimized traffic is automatically passed through



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• 4-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet cards• TCP connection forwarding• Diverse in-path and out-of-path deployment options

• Serial clustering• Parallel clustering• Hot backups

• Fail-to-wire Ethernet cards• Dual power supply (optional)• RAID (optional)

Steelhead appliances are designed for easy network integration

Deployment Flexibility

Software-based Redundancy

Hardware-basedRedundancy


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Sample deployment (in-path)

Router

SteelheadAppliances 2, 3, 4, …

L2 Switch

WAN or VPN

Firewallor VPN

WAN/VPN

NAS

FileServers

Mail Server

LAN

In-path with 4-port card

Router

Router

WAN/VPNSwitch

Switch

Router

Router

Central Management Console (Optional)

NAS

FileServers

Mail Server

LAN

In-path with optional failover unit


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Sample deployment (additional options)

CLI &web-based

mgmt.

Out-of-path (clustering optional)

Router Firewallor VPN

SteelheadAppliances

L4 Switch

WAN/VPN

NAS

FileServers

Mail Server

Steelhead SH1

Steelhead SH2

Asymmetric routing

WAN/VPN


26SALES OFFICEParis, France

EUROPEAN SERVICE CENTERReading, UK

PRIMARY DESIGN CENTEROsaka, Japan

EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION HUBCork, Ireland

768 kbps

DISASTER RECOVERY SITEJersey City, New Jersey

OC-3

PROJECT SITEKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Filers

PRIMARY DATA CENTERDenver, CO

File Servers

Mail Servers

TapeBackup

Q.A.Bangalore India

Intelsat255 kbps Uplink

1.5 Mbps Downlink800 ms RTT

T3T3

2x T1

3x T1

DSL

256 kbps

E1

WebServers

SH 2010SH 2010

SH 510

SH 3010

SH 5010

SH 5010

Filer

Filer

SH 5010

SH 5010

SH CMC

(serverless)

VPNInternet

SH 5010PrivateNetwork

Storage

Storage

File Servers

Mail Servers

WebServers


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RiOS supports centralized management

Riverbed Central Management Console• Touchless configuration• Aggregated reporting• Group or individual configurations• Scheduled operations• Customizable reports and displays• SNMP traps


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Riverbed provides world-class expertise & support

• Worldwide 24x7 availability

• Platinum, Gold, and Silver support levels

• Our team is relentlessly focused on customer success

Highly valued and praised by customers

“Deploying Steelhead appliances has been quick and easy – they can usually be installed in 15 minutes. When we had an issue that required technical support, they were fantastic and stuck with us until it was resolved.

I’m very impressed with Riverbed’s support team, and recommend them highly.”

– IT Director, Large Engineering Company


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Steelhead appliances are sized for your offices

520• 1 Mbps optimized throughput• 300 optimized TCP

connections

Small Office

2020• 10 Mbps optimized throughput• 2000 optimized TCP connections

Mid-Size Office

1020• 2 Mbps Kbps optimized throughput• 625 optimized TCP connections

3010/3510 • 10/20 Mbps Kbps optimized throughput• 2400/2400 optimized TCP connections

Data Center/HQ

5010• 45 Mbps Kbps optimized throughput• 4,500 optimized TCP connections

Riverbed Central Management System

Systemwide Visibility/Reporting

New



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In summary, Riverbed will accelerate your business

Reduces bandwidth utilization by 60% to 95%

Accelerates all key applications by up to 100x over the WAN

WAN

Hundreds of customers in production today

Enables successful IT consolidation

Thank you for your time

www.riverbed.com

riverbed technology leading-edge performance for wide-area data services meta infotech mumbai, india

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