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)

Steelhead Model	550 Series		1050 Series			2050 Series
Configurations	M	H	L	M	H	L	M	H
Profile	Desktop		1U			1U
Optimized WAN Capacitya	2 Mbps	4 Mbps	8o Mbps	10o Mbps	20o Mbps	45 Mbpsb
Optimized TCP Connectionsd	300	600	800	1,300	2,300	2,500	4,000	6,000
Raw Capacity	160 GB		250 GB		500 GB	1 TB
Data Store Capacity	80 GB		100 GB		200 GB	400 GB
RSP Partitionk	55 GB		100 GB (Default) 200 GB (RAID)		200 GB	75 GB
Storage Fault Tolerance	-		Optional RAID			RAID
Front Swappable Drives	-		1 (default) 4g (RAID)		2 (default) 4g (RAID)	4g
RAMm	2 GB		2 GB		4 GB	6 GB
Expansion Slots (PCI-e)h	-		1			1
Onboard Bypass ports (Copper)	2		4			4
Max # of Bypass Ports	2		8			8

^(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
^(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
^(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.