Transport Streamlining

Key Benefits:

Eliminates 65% to 98% of TCP packets required to transfer data
Accelerate encrypted (SSL) traffic like HTTPS
Optimizes both low-bandwidth and high-bandwidth connections

Transport Streamlining improves the performance of TCP-based applications by improving the way transport protocols behave on WANs, reducing the number of TCP packets required to transfer data by 65% to 98%. Transport Streamlining overcomes the limitations of TCP by adapting transmission characteristics such as window scale, loss handling, congestion notification, and more.

Transport Streamlining now supports the acceleration of encrypted SSL traffic (like HTTPS), which means that even your secure business applications can benefit from Riverbed’s award-winning application acceleration.

For high-bandwidth WAN links (also known as “Long Fat Networks”, or “LFNs”) components of Transport Streamlining known as high speed TCP (HS-TCP) and Max-Speed TCP (MX-TCP) may be activated which enables greater bandwidth utilization, providing the capability to “fill the pipe” more effectively. MX-TCP also helps dealing with lossy network connections.

RiOS is designed to adapt to network conditions on-the-fly, responding to events such as congestion or packet loss without giving up the reliability and scalability that make TCP the de facto standard. With Transport Streamlining, enterprises can be assured that their networks are optimally transferring data.

Unlike other products which may implement one or two features designed to optimize TCP, RiOS implements both patented and industry-accepted features in order to fully maximize the power of TCP:

Virtual Window Expansion
Window Scaling
Delayed and Selective Acknowledgments (RFC 2018)
Explicit Congestion Notification (RFC 3168)
Limited and Fast Re-Transmits (RFC 3042 and RFC 2582)
Adaptive Initial Congestion Windows (RFC 3390)
Slow Start with Congestion Avoidance (RFC 2581)
Bandwidth Delay Control