Review: Riverbed closes the WAN gap

Riverbed Steelhead with RiOS 7 takes a huge bite out of UDP, video, and VDI traffic over the WAN, adding to its excellent TCP and file access optimizations

By Keith Schultz, InfoWorld | Networking, Riverbed, WAN

Dramatically reduces network latency and data traffic over WAN links
Adds UDP to the traffic streams that can be optimized
On-the-fly video stream splitting eliminates redundant video sessions over the WAN
Optimizes SSL-encrypted Citrix ICA sessions and client-side drive mapping
Supports IPv6 networking and Kerberos authentication

Optimizing Remote Desktop Services traffic requires compression and encryption to be disabled
No optimization (yet) for VMware's PCoIP

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