Riverbed upgrades WAN optimization platforms

Riverbed lets business execs can get a big-picture view of application performance; boost Microsoft Outlook performance.

Riverbed has added a level service dashboard designed to give business executives a high-level view of how well applications are performing on the network.  

With its WAN optimization analytics platform Cascade 9.0, executives can drill down see if there  performance problems that need immediate attention or build a historical view of their network to plan upgrades, the company says.

For more on wan optimization: Application performance engineering

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Riverbed has added a level service dashboard designed to give business executives a high-level view of how well applications are performing on the network.  

With its WAN optimization analytics platform Cascade 9.0, executives can drill down see if there  performance problems that need immediate attention or build a historical view of their network to plan upgrades, the company says.

For more on wan optimization: Application performance engineering

At the same time, the Riverbed has upgraded the RiOS operating system for its Steelhead WAN optimization appliances. RiOS 6.5 includes application-specific optimization for Microsoft Outlook Anywhere and SMB v2. The new version also includes optimization for SSL certificate traffic for client machines and for protocols used by satellites.

The software makes it easier to configure QoS settings on Steelheads for customers who choose to use it rather than QoS on their routers. Customers rank their applications in importance, categorize each site by the bandwidth of their WAN connections and set minimum and maximum use for classes of activity. The QoS employs the hierarchical fair services curves algorithm.

The devices now take latency into consideration when determining how to handle individual applications. For example, if imposing deduplication on traffic would introduce excessive latency that would actually increase the time it takes for traffic to arrive, the device would skip it.

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