Riverbed's Steelhead appliances provide the highest level of WAN performance across the broadest range of applications. Available in a wide range of sizes – all powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) – Steelhead appliances are also the most scalable approach to application acceleration across your WAN.

Steelhead appliances come in a range of sizes to ensure that each of your offices has a properly sized acceleration appliance. Plus, with our upgradeable licensing capability, you don’t need to oversize a box for your remote offices and can ensure that you still have room to grow while protecting your WAN optimization investment.

Our smallest Steelhead appliance 100 is meant for offices with just a few people; our 6000-series appliances carry enterprise-class data center workloads and can meet the needs of offices with many thousands of users.

And now with the Virtual Steelhead appliance, hardware and space requirements are no longer a limiting factor. These virtual appliances can be deployed for specific ruggedized and space limited environments or can also be scaled up via clustering to work in virtualized data centers.

Model Characteristics

The 50 Series Appliances (xx50 Specs)

Steelhead Model	250 Series
Configurations	L	M	H
Profile	Desktop
Optimized WAN Capacitya	1 Mbps	1 Mbps	2 Mbps
Optimized TCP Connectionsd	30	125	200
Raw Capacity	120 GB
Data Store Capacity	40 GB
RSP Partitionk	55 GB
Storage Fault Tolerance	-
Front Swappable Drives	-
RAMm	1 GB
Expansion Slots (PCI-e)h	-
Onboard Bypass ports (Copper)	2
Max. # of Bypass Ports	2

^(a) Inbound (WAN to LAN) Steelhead capacity is unrestricted; outbound WAN capacity can be expected up to the amount listed. On the 5050, and 6050, total WAN capacity equals inbound traffic + outbound traffic
^(d) TCP Connections can be expected up to the amount listed
^(h) Optional Network Bypass cards: Dual and Quad LX and SX GigE Fiber GigE, Quad Copper GigE, Dual 10GbE SR (INT9350 & SHA7050 only)
^(k) Raw disk capacity allocated to the RSP partition. About 7GB is used by RSP package and filesystem. Partner packages need additional storage (based on the size of the package)
^(m) RSP requires additional 2GB of memory, 6050 requires 4GB, 7050 requires 8GB

 

For the Steelhead Product Family Datasheet, please click here.