The Steelhead CX series features dedicated WAN optimization appliances, ideal for organizations that want to improve application performance and data transfers served over a wide area network. The series is engineered for seamless network integration into remote sites and data centers, with scalable performance designed to support a growing number of users, devices, and data.

As a result, Steelhead CX breaks through the application-performance barrier, helping you deliver on your application SLAs, while also optimizing your networking budgets. Whether you are representing navy needing to optimize communication with a distributed fleet or an enterprise building out your private cloud, the Steelhead CX series delivers the performance and ROI necessary to ensure your project’s success.

Designed to provide the highest performing and most scalable WAN optimization solution for any sized environment, Steelhead CX appliances accelerate business applications, speed data transfers, and optimize WAN bandwidth costs to improve user productivity and simplify IT management across geographic boundaries.

BENEFITS

1. INCREASE PERFORMANCE UP TO 100X

·  Determine the optimal path for each application to speed delivery across the WAN

·  Reduce response times to make deploying virtual servers, desktops, and applications faster and easier than ever

2. REDUCE COSTS AND IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY

·  Reduce bandwidth utilization by 60-95 percent, thus deferring costly network bandwidth upgrades

·  Support up to one million connections

·  Increase throughput and number of connections in a single box by 50 percent

·  Balance traffic across private and public links

3. GAIN VISIBILITY AND CONTROL

·  Deploy in minutes — without changes to applications, users, routers, or other IT infrastructure

·  Automatically discover and report on applications in use across your organization

·  Perform ongoing management through the powerful web-based and command line interfaces, including in-depth reporting and NetFlow export

·  Maximize data protection

FEATURES

·  Accelerates all TCP and many UDP applications to increase performance up to 100x

·  Combines data reduction, TCP and UDP optimization, and application-level protocol optimization across the WAN

·  Supports up to one million connections through an intelligent and scale-as-you-grow performance architecture

·  Improves ROI by increasing throughput and number of connections in a single box by 50 percent

·  Accelerates both replication and backup from the branch — or between data centers — by 10x or more

·  Eliminates the need for additional bandwidth or longer backup windows

·  Features the highest-capacity SSD-based WAN optimization controller