The following are some of the key features that you can expect in any of the Steelhead appliances.

• Bandwidth utilization improved from 65% to 95%.
• Throughput optimisation enchanced 5 to 50 times.
• Improve downloads to mobile workers by a factor of 50.

PicNet have embarked on a new venture delivering Riverbeds Wide-area Data Services. Here at PicNet, we provide all of your Riverbed Product and services needs. We prize ourselves on quality and excellence for our clients that is why you can expect nothing but the best and Riverbed supply the best solutions for your WAN issues.

• 3 tier annual Support for your appliances.
• Streamlining of your Data, application and transport enhances WAN Bandwidth Optimization
• Faster WAN backups
• Accelerate Mobile Workers
• Seamless integration into your existing WAN

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Wide Area Data Services - Efficiency, Productivity and Collaboration like never before.

In this age of massive organizations with Wide Area Networks that span the globe what is the most dreaded issue that plagues a companies productivity, availability, quality and compliance? Slow network speeds and latency. Without reliable and trust worthy connectivity, businesses simply cannot function effectively and collaborations are neigh impossible.

Riverbed Technology provide the answer to your WAN issue with the range of steelhead appliances. Powered by RiOS 4.0, the award winning software platform, WAN optimization,

• Accelerate applications across the wide area network - Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) provides an application-independent foundation that automatically optimizes all applications that run over TCP. RiOS also provides application-specific optimizations for widely-used applications such as file sharing, email, databases, Web (including secure HTTPS) applications, and more. By combining an application independent foundation with application specific modules, RiOS provides a more powerful, flexible architecture that can deliver higher application acceleration and also deliver additional optimizations to customers for optimal application performance.

• Optimize WAN bandwidth utilization - Many enterprises use WAN bandwidth optimization in order to cut costs and relieve network congestion. But typical WAN optimization products only reduce network traffic by ten or twenty percent. In contrast, a wide-area data services (WDS) solution can reduce network utilization typically by 60 to 95%.

• Enable and simplify IT consolidation - Many organizations are consolidating, or centralizing, IT today. IT consolidation provides many benefits, including simpler, easier to manage applications and infrastructure. But accelerating application performance is key to a successful IT centralization project.

• Accelerate backup, recovery and replication - Riverbed's Wide-area Data Services (WDS) solutions transparently accelerate all backup and replication applications that utilize TCP. Powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), Riverbed's approach can cut backup windows by typically 75% or more, and dramatically reduce WAN bandwidth utilization - typically by 60 to 95%. These types of performance gains enable organizations to reliably and regularly complete network-based backup without interfering with other applications that require the WAN.

• Accelerate Mobile Workers - With a mobile wide-area data services (WDS) solution like Steelhead Mobile, mobile workers can now have the same LAN-like access to applications and data that employees in the office have. These solutions use software running on the end-users' machine to connect with an appliance in the data center.