What's New - Steelhead Mobile
The workforce is now everywhere. Whether employees are at a customer site, at a hotel, or even on a plane to the next important meeting, everyone needs instantaneous access to files and applications located in the enterprise headquarters.
With Steelhead Mobile - everyone in the organization can access key data at LAN-like speeds. Steelhead Mobile runs an optimized version of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) accelerating applications for individual laptops or desktops.
The table below shows the important features of RiOS that Steelhead Mobile uses in order to accelerate applications across the WAN.
| RiOS Features | Benefit |
| Data Streamlining (Bandwidth Optimizations) |
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| Scalable Data Referencing | Removes redundant WAN data for all TCP traffic |
| LZ Compression | Compress data that must be send over the WAN |
| Transport Streamlining (TCP Optimizations) |
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| Virtual Window Expansion | Send much more data per payload on each round trip for TCP |
| Limited and Fast Retransmits | Optimize resent packets |
| Connection Pooling | Maintain an already-connected pool of TCP connections to reduce TCP connection overhead |
| Application Streamlining (Latency Optimizations) |
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| CIFS Streamlining | Accelerate Microsoft Windows file sharing |
| MAPI Streamlining | Accelerate Microsoft Exchange (2000, 2003) |
| HTTP Streamlining | Accelerate web-based applications |
| Other Key Features: | |
| Ease of Deployment | |
| Transparent Deployment | Deploy software with no changes to networks or other infrastructure |
| Enhanced Auto-Discovery | End-to-end auto-discovery across multi-hop deployments |
| Management | |
| Steelhead Mobile Controller | Manage up to 2000 Steelhead Mobile clients from one console |
| SMC Clustering | Scales Steelhead Mobile beyond the per SMC limit of 2000 users |
| Log Export | Detailed dumps from individual clients |
| Over-the-wire upgrade | MSI packages to upgrade RiOS Mobile versions |
