Application Streamlining

Key Benefits:

Additional performance for key enterprise applications
Incremental to Data Streamlining and Transport Streamlining
Eliminate up to 98% of transactions required to transfer data
Enable transparent pre-population, file services, disconnected operations, and more

RiOS is based on an application-independent foundation that accelerates all enterprise applications, but also provides a mechanism to add additional acceleration for specific applications that suffer most from the effects of high latency. Application Streamlining is the realization of that flexibility and power.

Application Streamlining can provide an additional order-of-magnitude improvement in application performance, over and above what is provided by Data Streamlining and Transport Streamlining, by reducing application-protocol chattiness up to 98% and minimizing application overhead.

Today, RiOS includes additional application performance via Application Streamlining for the following protocols:

CIFS (Windows file sharing, backup and replication, and other Windows-based applications)
MAPI (Microsoft Exchange – v 5.5, 2000 and 2003 are all supported)
NFS (v 3.0 - UNIX File Sharing and Unix-based applications)
HTTP (Web applications)
HTTPS (Secure Web applications)
MS-SQL (Database applications)

RiOS also includes important features for maximizing branch office productivity, such as file server capabilities and the capability to pre-populate Steelhead appliances or even file servers with popular data. The optional feature known as Proxy File Service (PFS) also supports disconnected operations so that files can be accessed by users in branch offices even if a WAN connection fails. PFS is only supported on models 520, 1010, 1020, 1520, 2020, 3010, 3020, 3520, 5010, and 5020.