{"id":8246,"date":"2016-04-28T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:22:53","slug":"riverbed-to-launch-new-application-defined-sd-wan-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/04\/28\/riverbed-to-launch-new-application-defined-sd-wan-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverbed to launch new application-defined SD-WAN solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riverbed Technology has launched Riverbed SteelConnect, an SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution.\u00a0 Riverbed is delivering an application-defined approach to networking, with SteelConnect designed to enable business-intent policies for applications to provide the performance and agility enterprises need today. SteelConnect unifies network connectivity and orchestration of application delivery across hybrid WANs, remote LANs and cloud networks such as AWS (available today) and Microsoft Azure (later this year).<\/p>\n<p>With a fully integrated line of secure WAN gateways, remote LAN switches and Wi-Fi access points, all managed centrally through a cloud console with an intuitive and graphical user interface, SteelConnect simplifies and streamlines the process of designing, deploying and managing distributed networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market is going through one of the largest transformations ever, with organisations moving quickly to adopt more digital and cloud services and hybrid networks,\u201d said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. \u201cUnfortunately, legacy approaches to managing distributed networks and routing \u2013 which are hardware-bound, hard-coded, inflexible and error-prone \u2013 haven\u2019t changed much in 20 years.\u00a0 We believe SteelConnect has the potential to disrupt the multi-billion dollar branch office router market and re-define networking as we know it today.\u00a0 With SteelConnect, we\u2019re delivering an application-defined networking solution that leverages Riverbed\u2019s application DNA and integrates industry-leading visibility, to provide the agility, simplicity and speed enterprises need to manage today\u2019s complex cloud and hybrid architectures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Industry analyst projections indicate enormous pent-up demand for newer and better approaches to networking. Gartner expects SD-WAN uptake to grow from less than 1% of enterprises today to 30% of enterprises by the end of 2019, and IDC expects the worldwide SD-WAN market to grow from less than $225 million in 2015 to more than $6 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSteelConnect represents a complete rethink of how networks should be built and managed in today\u2019s cloud-centric world,\u201d said Paul O\u2019Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Riverbed\u2019s SteelConnect, SteelHead and SteelFusion business units. \u201cSteelConnect provides a new experience of networking for both IT and business, where deploying and managing network services is as intuitive as downloading apps onto your smart phone and as instant as spinning up compute and storage resources into a public cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SteelConnect system is designed to address modern challenges associated with the delivery of applications across a hybrid enterprise with a unique set of capabilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unified connectivity &amp; management across WAN, remote LAN &amp; cloud networks<\/strong>: SteelConnect provides a software-defined and application-defined connectivity fabric that spans WANs, remote office LANs and cloud infrastructure networks through a line of physical, virtual and cloud-based WAN gateways, as well as remote LAN switches and Wi-Fi access points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business-aligned orchestration: <\/strong>Instead of managing networks through configuration of individual appliances, SteelConnect provides policy-based orchestration that is naturally aligned to the language and priorities of business: Applications, Users, Locations, Performance SLAs and Security requirements. An IT network architect can now easily set up global or local policies such as: send all video application traffic over the highest-capacity circuits; send software updates over internet broadband circuits; or send all business traffic over secure VPNs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud-based management experience: <\/strong>SteelConnect provides an intuitive graphical user interface. With SteelConnect, operators can design every aspect of a distributed network before deploying any hardware.\u00a0 Zero-touch provisioning then provides instant deployment of physical devices into a network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ubiquitous &amp; industry-leading visibility: <\/strong>SteelConnect provides complete visibility of all users and devices connected to a distributed network, and supports industry-leading NPM and APM capabilities from Riverbed SteelCentral<sup>M<\/sup> natively integrated into the SteelConnect central management console.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SteelConnect components include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SteelConnect Manager: <\/strong>A centralised and multi-tenant management portal that provides a workflow for designing, deploying and managing distributed and hybrid networks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SteelConnect Gateway: <\/strong>A line of physical and virtual secure WAN gateways that provide unified connectivity (point-to-point and full-mesh) and enforcement of global policy across on-premises and cloud network environments, zero-touch provisioning, automated VPN management and next-generation firewall and threat protection capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SteelConnect Switches &amp; SteelConnect Access Points: <\/strong>A line of remote LAN switches and Wi-Fi access points that support zero-touch provisioning, automate global enforcement of access control policies and provide complete visibility into connected users and devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>SteelConnect is available today through Riverbed\u2019s Early Access Programme, with general availability for SteelConnect planned for Fall 2016.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverbed Technology has launched Riverbed SteelConnect, an SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution.\u00a0 Riverbed is delivering an application-defined approach to networking, with SteelConnect designed to enable business-intent policies for applications to provide the performance and agility enterprises need today. 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