Riverbed’s SSL/TLS WAN acceleration solutions help enterprises overcome latency and congestion in encrypted traffic by optimizing application performance across distributed networks. With 95% of web traffic now encrypted, latency and congestion severely impact user experience and productivity. Riverbed addresses this through SteelHead, Client Accelerator, Cloud Accelerator, and SaaS Accelerator, offering up to 99% bandwidth reduction and 10x performance gains. Deployment models—including manual, simplified, and auto-signing—cater to diverse security needs. Techniques like data deduplication, transport streamlining, and application-specific optimization improve performance. A DoD case study showed a 3x bandwidth increase and significant user satisfaction gains.

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