Steelhead CX: Application Acceleration For The Modern Enterprise

Data Sheet
SteelHead CX
Application acceleration for the Business Challenge
modern enterprise The traditional enterprise has evolved into a hybrid one
with people, apps, and data everywhere. More and more
Today’s Riverbed® SteelHead™ CX is engineered for
business-critical applications are moving to public clouds
fast, seamless network integration into remote sites
for SaaS and IaaS while others remain on-premises in
and branch offices, or data centers with scalable
datacenters. Additionally, organizations are leveraging
performance designed to support a growing number
combinations of hybrid networks (MPLS, Internet VPN,
of users, devices, data and application types.
and public Internet) for real-time application delivery
As the market leader in application acceleration, to location independent users.
SteelHead CX has proven to dramatically speed up
IT is under continued pressure to deliver the highest
the performance of applications anywhere in the
level of performance in a complex and evolving hybrid
organization while delivering the best end-user
network. However, unpredictable application behavior,
experience even under sub optimal network conditions.
reduced visibility, and limited control, can all decrease
Riverbed makes it easy to assure fast, agile, secure application performance. As a result, businesses and
delivery of any application to anyone, anywhere. users often experience decreased productivity.
Internet Cloud SaaS Accelerator
Client Accelerator
Cloud Accelerator
SteelHead CX SteelHead CX for

Data Center
MPLS
Branch Data Center
Users & Devices Applications & Data

Key Benefits
Accelerated application Integrated visibility Enhanced control and

performance and reduced • Provides visibility into SteelHeads management
bandwidth consumption with SteelCentral NetProfiler for • Performs ongoing centralized
response time analysis management through SteelCentral
• Reduces bandwidth utilization
by up to 95%, deferring costly • Validates QoS classifications and Controller for SteelHead, Web
network bandwidth upgrades acceleration benefits Interface, or from CLI
• Increases performance by • Improves network troubleshooting • Discovers and reports on

up to 100x for on-premises capabilities through enhanced applications in use across the
applications packet capture for analysis with organization
Riverbed Packet Analyzer Plus • Leverages simplified configuration
• Leverages application awareness
to distinguish between business with REST API for hybrid features—
path selection, QoS, and secure
and non-critical network traffic to
transport—and custom API scripts
select optimal acceleration path
for monitoring
• Enables rapid, resilient, and
• Zero-touch traffic optimization
secure replication and backup
across standards-based encrypted
over the WAN
links (private and Internet)
Riverbed SteelHead CX Data Sheet 2

Feature Specifications
SteelHead CX-580/CX-780/CX-3080
Small office appliances that leverages the full performance capabilities of the hardware. Offers a flexible feature
set broken into 3 tiers (Essentials/Standard/Enterprise) depending on the customer requirements.
Essentials Standard Enterprise

Description Basic WAN Optimization Full WAN Optimization with Full Featured App Acceleration
App Acceleration + Next Gen Features
Sample Features • Full Deduplication Essentials + Standard +

• TCP Optimization / MXTCP • HTTPS Optimization • Data Center Protocol Blades
• Hybrid Networking: QOS / • Most Protocol Blades (MAPI, (Replication, NFS)
Secure Transport / Path SMB, CIFS) • Exotic Protocols – Lotus Notes
Selection WebProxy SCPS / FIPS
• SaaS Accelerator
SteelHead CX-5080/CX-7080
Fully featured appliances designed for large offices or datacenters that delivers best in class WAN optimization to
accelerate the performance of enterprise applications. Licensing tiers determine the bandwidth and connection
performance boundaries
Enterprise
Model 5080 7080
Maximum Connections 20,000 / 60,000 100,000 / 150,000 / 220,000
Maximum Bandwidth 300 / 622 (Mbps) 1000 / 2000 / 3000 (Mbps)

Full Featured WAN Optimization
(See specification sheet for details)
About Riverbed
Riverbed enables organizations to maximize performance and visibility for networks and applications, so they
can overcome complexity and fully capitalize on their digital and cloud investments. The Riverbed Network
and Application Performance Platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, remediate and accelerate
the performance of any network for any application, and helps to identify and mitigate cybersecurity threats.
The platform addresses performance and visibility holistically with best-in-class WAN optimization, unified
network performance management (NPM), application acceleration (including Office 365, SaaS, client and
cloud acceleration), and enterprise-grade SD-WAN. Riverbed’s 30,000+ customers include 99% of the Fortune 100.
Learn more at at riverbed.com.
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Data Sheet

Internet Cloud SaaS Accelerator

SteelHead CX SteelHead CX for

Branch Data Center

Users & Devices Applications & Data

Accelerated application Integrated visibility Enhanced control and

• Increases performance by • Improves network troubleshooting • Discovers and reports on

Riverbed SteelHead CX Data Sheet 2

Essentials Standard Enterprise

Sample Features • Full Deduplication Essentials + Standard +

Maximum Connections 20,000 / 60,000 100,000 / 150,000 / 220,000

Maximum Bandwidth 300 / 622 (Mbps) 1000 / 2000 / 3000 (Mbps)

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