Networks Unlimited, a leading IT security and networking value added distributor, announced today that it has been appointed as a Riverbed Steelhead appliance distributor for sub-Saharan Africa.
Networks Unlimited will continue to provide best-of-breed product solutions to the market, especially in areas where efficient networking communications is the key to a company`s success.
Riverbed`s Steelhead appliances are WAN acceleration devices that speed traffic, cut bandwidth, and save organisations money. Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local.
Riverbed`s Steelhead appliances
Riverbed`s Wide Area Data Services (WDS) solutions enable organisations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites.
By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites by five to 50 times, and in some cases, up to 100 times between enterprise data centres and remote offices, Riverbed`s award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.
Steelhead appliances have been deployed in organisations ranging from the world`s largest corporations, with offices around the globe, to small companies with a couple of sites that are just kilometres apart.
Advantages
* Riverbed takes a multi-tiered approach to optimisation and addresses the problems of bandwidth, latency and application protocol inefficiencies through a unified solution.
* Accelerates Windows file sharing up to 95x with up to a 99% reduction in bandwidth utilisation.
* Improves Microsoft Exchange e-mail attachment transmission up to 54x and reduces traffic by up to 97%.
* Riverbed`s Steelhead appliances speed up file transfers 45 times to a low-bandwidth, low-delay site and 34 times to a low-bandwidth, high-delay site.
* Steelhead appliances deliver Web traffic seven times faster than tests with no device inline.
* Leading industry publications confirm that Riverbed continuously outperforms other WDS Appliances.
* The Steelhead appliances are easy to deploy and integrate quickly and easily into existing infrastructure.
According to Timothy Pope, Riverbed Product Manager at Networks Unlimited, Riverbed`s Steelhead appliance brings customers a compelling value proposition.
"Addressing WAN performance is a critical factor when considering that bandwidth in Africa can cost up to 10 times more than what`s currently available in the rest of the developed world."
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