It"s Not About Bandwidth. Solving the Problem of Application Performance on Wide Area Networks

Riverbed develops infrastructure appliances to improve the performance of client-server interactions over WANs without breaking the semantics of the protocols, file systems or applications. Riverbed's approach can improve the performance, or throughput, of client-server interactions over WANs by up to 100 times or more, giving the illusion that the server is local rather than remote. That degree of improvement can enable enterprise customers to centralize currently distributed resources like storage, mail servers, and file servers and deliver new WAN-based IT services that have not been possible before.