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SteelHead is Riverbed’s flagship, the #1 application acceleration solution worldwide, designed to accelerate network and application performance over wide-area networks. It is available as SteelHead appliances and SteelHead Virtual, delivering the same acceleration benefits in physical data centers and virtualized server environments. As part of the Riverbed Platform, it integrates with AI-driven observability and automation tools to enable resilient, zero-disruption operations and improved digital experiences.
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Riverbed SteelHead — a traditional WAN-optimization approach. It provides TCP acceleration, data reduction, and QoS; importantly, Riverbed explicitly classifies RDP as interactive traffic for prioritization.

Riverbed SteelHead provides specialized application-level streamlining and transport-layer optimization.
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Riverbed SteelHead — The industry veteran for traditional and cloud-ready WAN optimization, utilizing TCP acceleration, data compression, and deduplication to maintain session responsiveness despite poor link health.

Riverbed SteelHead / SD-WAN: The pioneer of traditional WAN optimization.