Riverbed WAN optimization soln in India

Idhries Ahmad

BANGALORE: WAN optimization solution provider Riverbed Technology today released its fourth generation Optimization System (RiOS) in India.

Riverbed’s RiOS 4.0 will help enterprises accelerate SSL across the WAN without compromising security trust model while addressing the problems of high latency and low bandwidth that plague applications over wide area networks (WAN's).

“SSL application deployment in organizations has increased by 50 to 55 percent, and SSL represents anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of enterprise traffic. Until now, SSL security and WAN performance were constantly in conflict. RiOS 4.0 is the first solution to rectify that problem for distributed enterprises,” Josh Tseng, director of Technical Marketing at Riverbed, said.

The RiOS 4.0 also aims to deliver improved scalability over the network by doing away with the performance issues that crop up while migrating data from remote offices to central data centers.

The company said is possible because the Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances, connected at each end of WAN link, reduces the volume of traffic by analyzing the data itself and then optimize as to what gets into the network doing away with repetitive data, reducing software chattiness and working on the round trip time(RTT). (Time taken from data packet to reach the receiver from sender and vice versa).

“Latency, software chattiness and inadequacies in TCP/IP protocol mean that most of the WAN’s are clogged resulting in productivity loss for the enterprises. Riverbed appliances rather than compressing the data optimize the network by working on issues relating to latency and chattiness” said Vivek Singh, regional director of Riverbed, India.

Additional RiOS 4.0 features include enhanced auto discovery to simplify deployments for large environments. Enhanced auto discovery automatically finds and optimizes WAN traffic between the distant Steelhead pair endpoints. .

Riverbed started its operations in 2004 and rolled out its first product by 2005.

The company has OEM deals with HP, McData and NEC and has close to 250 resellers.