Admission Control (operational): The state for the optimization service which prevents it from the optimization of new TCP sessions based on TCP session limits, TCP bandwidth limits or memory utilization.
Asymmetric Routing (networking): The situation where the traffic between client and server takes a different path compared with the traffic between server and client.
Auto-Discovery (optimization): The method of discovering peer Steelhead appliances in the path between the client and the server.
Auto-Discovery Probe (optimization): The TCP Option in the TCP SYN packet which is used in the Auto-Discovery method.
By-pass card (hardware): A network card with one or more LAN and WAN interface pairs.
Central Management Console: An application to manage the configuration of Steelhead appliances, to monitor the behaviour of Steelhead appliances, Interceptor application and Steelhead Mobile Controllers.
CFE (networking): Client File Engine, internal name for Client-side Steelhead Appliance.
CLI (operational): The Steelhead appliance command-line interface.
Client-side Steelhead appliance (networking): The Steelhead appliance closest to the client setting up the TCP session.
CMC (operational): See Central Management Console.
Cold Transfer (optimization): An optimized file transfer with data which is not seen before by the Steelhead appliance and thus needs to be labeled and transferred to the other Steelhead appliance.
Connection Forwarding (optimization): The method for two or more Steelhead appliances to exchange information about TCP sessions optimized by one of the Steelhead appliances.
Connection Pool (optimization, networking): A set of pre-setup TCP sessions setup between two Steelhead appliance in-path interfaces which can be converted into Inner Channels.
Correct Addressing (optimization, networking): The WAN visibility method of the inner channel where the IP addresses are the IP addresses of the Steelhead appliance in-path interfaces and the TCP port numbers used are TCP port numbers defined by the client-side and server-side Steelhead appliances.
CSH (networking): See Client-side Steelhead appliance.
Data store (optimization): The dictionary with the reference labels and frames.
Data store ID (optimization): The identifier of a data store.
Data Store Synchronization (optimization): The method for two Steelhead appliances to synchronize their data store so that learned references are not lost if one of the data stores vanishes.
Fault Tolerant Segstore (hardware): A data store storage implementation which allows for failure of the underlying storage devices.
Fixed Target (optimization): The method of setting up an inner channel by defining the IP address of the peer Steelhead appliance in the in-path rule.
Frame (optimization): A string of characters.
FTS (hardware): See Fault Tolerant Segstore.
Full Transparency (optimization, networking): The WAN visibility method of the inner channel where the IP addresses and TCP port numbers used are the IP addresses and TCP port numbers of the client and server.
GUI (operational): The Steelhead appliance web-interface.
Inner channel (optimization, networking): The part of an optimized TCP session between two Steelhead appliances.
In-Path Deployment (networking): A deployment method where the Steelhead appliance is located between two network devices.
In-path Interface (operation, networking): A virtual interface consisting of a physical LAN and WAN interface on a by-pass card.
In-Path Rules (optimization): The list of rules traversed to determine what to happen with a new TCP session seen by a naked SYN packet.
Label (optimization): A unique identifier for a frame.
Link State Protocol (networking): A method for an interface in a pair of LAN and WAN interfaces to follow the network link state of its peer.
LSP (networking): See Link State Protocol.
MFE (networking): Middle File Engine, internal name for Middle Steelhead Appliance.
Middle Steelhead appliance (networking): Any Steelhead appliance in between the client-side Steelhead appliance and the server-side Steelhead appliance.
MSH (networking): See Middle Steelhead appliance.
Naked SYN (optimization): A TCP SYN packet without an auto-discovery probe attached to it.
OOB Splice (optimization): See Out-of-Band splice.
Optimization service (optimization): The process on the Steelhead appliance which does do the optimization of the network traffic.
Out-of-Band Splice (optimization): A control TCP session between two in-path interface IP addresses.
Out of Path Deployment (networking): A deployment method where the Steelhead appliance is not located in the path, virtual or non-virtual, of the traffic.
Outer channel (optimization, networking): The part of an optimized TCP session between a Steelhead appliance and the client or the server.
Peering Rule (optimization): A list of rules traversed to determine what to happen with a new TCP session identified by a SYN+ packet.
Port Transparency (networking): The WAN visibility method of the inner channel where the IP addresses used are the IP addresses of the Steelhead appliance in-path interfaces and the TCP port numbers used are the TCP port numbers of the client and server.
Reference (optimization): A frame in the data store, identified by a label.
RiOS (optimization): The Riverbed Optimization System.
RSP (virtualization): See Riverbed Services Platform.
RSP image (virtualization): The RSP software as provided by Riverbed to be installed on the Steelhead appliance.
RSP package (virtualization): A software image of the virtual machine as created by the RSP Package Generator.
RSP Package Generator (virtualization): The tool to convert a VMware based virtual machine into an RSP package.
RSP service (virtualization): The RSP software running on the Steelhead appliance.
RSP slot (virtualization): The virtual machine on the RSP service.
Riverbed Services Platform (virtualization): The virtualization platform on the Steelhead appliances.
Scalable Data Referencing (optimization): The dictionary methods that the Steelhead appliance applies to optimize data.
SDR (optimization): See Scalable Data Referencing.
SDR-A (optimization): SDR Advanced, where the optimization service decided to use normal SDR or SDR-M based on the disk load on the Steelhead appliance.
SDR-M (optimization): SDR Memory, where the optimization service only uses a memory based data store and not a disk based data store.
Secure Sockets Layer (optimization): An encrypted transport layer.
Secure vault (hardware): An encrypted disk partition on the Steelhead appliance.
Segstore (optimization): See Data store.
Server-side Steelhead appliance (networking): The Steelhead appliance closest to the server the TCP session is being setup to.
SFE (networking): Server File Engine, internal name for Server-side Steelhead Appliance.
SH (networking): Abbreviation for Steelhead appliance.
SHM (optimization): The Steelhead Mobile software.
Simplified Routing (networking, optimization): Routing decisions which are based on data learned from packets going through an in-path interface.
SMC (hardware): The Steelhead Mobile Controller.
SPort (optimization): See Optimization service.
SSH (networking): See Server-side Steelhead appliance.
SSL (optimization): See Secure Sockets Layer.
SYN+ packet (optimization): A TCP SYN packet with an auto-discovery probe in it.
SYN/ACK+ packet (optimization): A TCP SYN/ACK packet with an auto-discovery probe in it.
Virtual In-Path Deployment (networking): A deployment method where the Steelhead appliance is not located in between two network devices but gets the interesting traffic forwarded by a WCCP router, via PBR or via a Interceptor appliance.
WAN visibility (networking): The IP address and TCP port number used for the inner channel of the optimized TCP session.
Warm Transfer (optimization): An optimized file transfer with data which has been seen before by the Steelhead appliance and thus only the references need to be send to the other Steelhead appliance.