Chapter 2. The Riverbed Approach to WAN Optimization

Table of Contents

2.1. Index
2.2. Appliance Setup
2.3. Basic configuration of a Steelhead appliance
2.4. The layout of an optimized TCP session
2.5. The setup of an optimized TCP session.
2.6. WAN Visibility
2.7. The optimization protocol
2.8. Hardware models

2.1. Index

This chapter describes how Riverbed has implemented its WAN optimization products.

  • The design of the Steelhead appliances, physical and logical.

  • The startup of the Steelhead appliance, the processes running on it.

  • The configuration of the Steelhead appliance, routing of the packets, interface settings, license keys.

  • The design of an optimized TCP session, the setup of an optimized TCP session.

  • In-path rules, peering rules, WAN visibility.

  • Different hardware models.