Workforce Performance at Home and on the Go with Client Accelerator

With modern, mobile workforces spanning the globe and consuming business applications from home offices, coffee shops, airports, and client sites, network connections are ever-changing and unpredictable.

Riverbed Client Accelerator (formerly called SteelHead Mobile) delivers leading-edge application acceleration to mobile workers anywhere. Client Accelerator provides mobile employees with fast, reliable access to leading enterprise SaaS and on-premises applications.

With a simple software agent installed transparently on laptops or desktops, Riverbed Client Accelerator allows mobile and remote workers to be highly efficient and productive anywhere they work.

Most Common Technology Issues for Remote Workers

40

Poor Quality of Video Meetings

40

Frequent Disconnects from Networks

38

Slow File Downloads

36

Long Response Time When Loading Apps

Solution

Client Accelerator

Riverbed® Client Accelerator (formerly SteelHead Mobile) delivers leading-edge application acceleration to mobile workers anywhere. Extending the functionality of Riverbed’s leading WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration services and solutions, Client Accelerator provides mobile employees with fast, reliable access to leading enterprise SaaS and on-premises applications.

With a simple software agent installed transparently on laptops or desktops, Riverbed Client Accelerator allows mobile and remote workers to be highly efficient and productive anywhere they work.

Client Accelerator Key Features

With Client Accelerator, working remotely is no longer a barrier to getting things done. Client Accelerator interacts directly with any SteelHead or Riverbed SaaS Accelerator solution to optimize and accelerate on-premises or SaaS applications.

Improves application performance with minimal delays

Acceleration of business-critical web applications

Unmatched scalability

Complete visibility and control

Client Accelerator Key Benefits

With Riverbed®Accelerator for O365 (including SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office Web Apps), you can maximize your Microsoft Office 365 investment while providing superior user experiences, improved collaboration, and increased productivity on the business-critical applications your users rely on every day.

Improves network and application performance and productivity for users anywhere

  • 10x faster acceleration for business-critical SaaS and on-prem applications
  • Reduces network bandwidth by up to 99%
  • Eliminates performance problems caused by increasingly unpredictable network latency and competition among applications

Streamlines IT management and reduces support costs for mobile workers

  • Provides an integrated solution for mobile and/or branch office workers for a local experience of applications in the data center and the cloud
  • Provides ease of provisioning and extends global enterprise data centers and SaaS cloud environments to support large-scale mobile deployments
  • Scales to support up to 35,000 concurrent active mobile clients

Workforce productivity anywhere, anytime

  • Fast, consistent, available enterprise applications result in improved customer/client/employee satisfaction, faster time to market, faster time to pipeline/revenue, improved reputation, and lower cost/risk to the business

Technical Specifications

Operating System

  • Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Windows 8.1 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Windows 10 (32 and 64 bit)
  • MacOS 10.11, 10.12, and 10.13

CPU

  • 1 GHz or Higher

Memory

  • 2 GB or Higher

Data Store

  • 256 MB Free Disk Space (min. required)

VSP CPU and Memory Requirements

  • Minimum 1 CPU (1 GHz or Higher) & 3 GB or Higher

Steelhead Appliance

  • Minimum 1 physical (CX, EX), virtual (VCX) or Cloud Steelhead (CCX) needed on the server side

How We
Can Help

NTS is here to help you get the most out of your network and application performance. NTS can assist in re-evaluating your current network infrastructure model and address the challenges that come with your applications, such as high maintenance costs, latency, SaaS traffic, and end-user experience. Each of which can be remedied with Riverbed Application Acceleration solutions.

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Additional Resources

SaaS Accelerator Data Sheet

Riverbed® SaaS Accelerator is a cloud-based service, purpose-built for today’s workforce to ensure fast, consistent performance of critical SaaS applications for anyone, anywhere.

The Road to Success

Offce 365 helps drive collaboration in a digital world. But Microsoft doesn’t control the infrastructure for delivering services beyond the cloud.

Microsoft Office 365 Performance Management

To fully realize the benefits of Office 365 and other SaaS applications, organizations need integrated solutions that provide user-to-cloud visibility as well as the means to improve performance.