New Riverbed WAN Accelerator for Large Data Center

Riverbed Technology
announced increased scalability and flexibility for large-scale wide
area network (WAN) optimization deployments with the introduction of
the new Interceptor 9350 appliance and enhanced Riverbed software.

The Interceptor allows enterprise customers to scale their WAN
optimization solution to support hundreds of thousands of end users and
very large bandwidth WAN connections across an enterprise. Fortune 500
companies deploy Interceptor in their data centers for its ability to
provide scale and to simplify large WAN optimization deployments across
global networks.

Interceptor is a specialized clustering device for high-capacity,
high-availability Steelhead appliance deployments. The Interceptor
extends the scaling and performance capabilities of Steelhead
appliances to meet the requirements of very large data center
environments. The Interceptor allows clusters of up to 25 Steelhead
appliances to work together seamlessly and simplifies network setup,
while offering an even wider choice of high-availability configurations
to support the largest and most complex enterprise networks. Riverbed
Interceptor 9350 is designed to provide increased benefits, including
enhanced scalability to drive greater throughput and increased capacity
to support more users. The new Interceptor, in comparison to the
previous model, provides up to 3X more throughput while still
supporting up to one million concurrent connections. In addition, the
new Interceptor supports up to three 10G network interface cards (NIC)
which support customers’ taking advantage of modern data center designs.

Interceptor 9350 Provides Increased
Performance and Scalability

• 12 Gbps Throughput – The Interceptor 9350 supports up
  to 12 Gbps of ingress and egress traffic, which enables customers to
  provide WAN optimization for their largest data center requirements.
  This is especially important in high-throughput data replication and
  disaster recovery designs.
• 10G NIC – The Interceptor
  9350’s support for 10G NICs enables the Interceptor to be seamlessly
  integrated in modern data center designs.
• 20 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  – Interceptor appliances can be configured with up to four onboard and
  16 additional Gigabit Ethernet ports to provide maximum scalability on
  networks with multi-router ingress/egress.

Interceptor 2.0 Software
Provides Full Transparency Support
Interceptor appliances automatically work with the full IP address and
port transparency features in Steelhead appliances. The Interceptor’s
high-availability and scalability features allow customers that deploy
Steelhead appliances in full transparency mode to have enhanced
visibility into the original source and destination IP addresses and
ports.

High-Availability
In the event of a hardware or software failure, Interceptor appliances
provide high-availability to ensure uninterrupted optimization
operations.

• Multi-Interface Clustering – Provides customers with
  additional redundancy options, which ensures that no single link
  failure can cause the loss of connectivity between the Interceptor and
  the Steelhead appliance in the cluster.
• Fail-to-block support –
  In addition to the existing fail-to-wire feature, the Interceptor
  software now supports fail-to-block support, which enables the network
  to route around the failure.

"Riverbed Interceptor appliances are the ideal solution for
massively scalable Steelhead appliance deployments on WANs where
performance cannot be compromised," said Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed. "The
new Interceptor 9350 is designed to provide increased benefits,
including simplified deployment into complex and very large data center
environments, more choices for high-availability configurations, and
increased scalability. The 10G NIC coupled with the tripling of the
performance of the Interceptor 9350 positions Riverbed to integrate
seamlessly into our customer data center networks."

The Interceptor 9350 is now generally available.