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 WDS 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.

Model Characteristics

The 50 Series Appliances (xx50 Specs)

Model	5050			6050	7050
Configurations	L	M	H		L	M
Profile	3U			3U	3U
Optimized WAN Capacitya	90 Mbpsb,o	90 Mbpsb,o	155 Mbpsb	310 Mbpsb	1 Gbpsb,c,n
Optimized TCP Connectionsd	7,500	10,000	18,000	50,000	75,000	100,000
Raw Capacity	2 TB	2 TB	3 TB	8 TB	2.8 TB	5 TB
Data Store Capacity	600 GB	600 GB	800 GB	3.5 TB	2.2 TB	4.4 TB
RSP Partitionk	100 GBe	100 GBe	150 GBe	150 GBe	100 GBe	100 GBe
Storage Fault Tolerance	RAID			RAID	RAIDf
Front Swappable Disks	8g		12g	16g	16g	30g
RAMm	8 GB			24 GB	32 GB	48 GB
Expansion Slots (PCI-e)h	4			4	4
Onboard Bypass ports (Copper)	4			4	4
Max # of Bypass Ports	20			20	20

^(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
^(b) No enforced optimized WAN bandwidth limit
^(c) For Data Center to Data Center workloads, WAN capacity is up to 1 Gbps. For DC to remote office workloads, recommended WAN capacity is up to 622 Mbps
^(d) TCP Connections can be expected up to the amount listed
^(e) No PFS support
^(f) Data store uses fault tolerant striped configuration
^(g) Hot swappable disks
^(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
⁽ⁿ⁾ Over 4Gbps of LAN performance with 2.5X data reduction when configured to use jumbo Ethernet frames
^(o) The 5050L and the 1050 B/W increases require RiOS 5.5.7 or 6.0.2

 

For the Steelhead Product Family Datasheet, please click here.