Client Accelerator

Business success in today’s always-connected world relies on application performance. When applications fail to perform, employees can’t work efficiently, and productivity rapidly declines. This impact is especially pronounced for mobile and remote workers, who are increasingly vital to modern enterprises as they access applications from home, coffee shops, airports, client sites, and other locations. This is why we dive into one of the best tools to solve this issues which is Client Accelerator.

Business Challenge and Need for Client Accelerator

Today’s mobile workforce encounters numerous application performance challenges due to constantly changing network latency and bandwidth conditions, many of which are unpredictable and difficult for IT teams to address. Any slow-downs are frustrating and can result in missed business opportunities. When these issues are widespread, they can incur significant costs for any enterprise.

To remain competitive, build robust and enduring customer and client relationships, expand pipeline and revenue streams, launch new products on schedule, and carry out high-risk, time-sensitive missions, mobile workers must collaborate and share in real-time, download files quickly, and send large file attachments swiftly to any location. Mobile workers require rapid access to corporate documents and information, no matter where they are working in the world.

Businesses should have the flexibility to choose the optimal location for their data and applications—whether locally, in branch offices, global data centers, or in the cloud.

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The Riverbed Solution

Riverbed® Client Accelerator (previously known as SteelHead Mobile) offers advanced application acceleration for mobile workers wherever they are. Building on Riverbed’s premier WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration services and solutions, Client Accelerator ensures mobile employees have quick, dependable access to top enterprise SaaS and on-premises applications. By installing a lightweight software package transparently on laptops or desktops, Riverbed Client Accelerator enables mobile and remote workers to maintain high efficiency and productivity wherever they operate.

Client Accelerator interacts directly with any SteelHead, Cloud Accelerator, or SaaS Accelerator solution to enhance and expedite on-premises or SaaS applications. With Riverbed Client Accelerator, remote workers feel more connected.

Client Accelerator offers a versatile, scalable management tool that simplifies the provisioning of extensive mobile deployments. The Client Accelerator Controller aids IT teams in managing client licenses and oversees the deployment, management, and reporting of software clients.

Key Benefits of  Client Accelerator

Improves network and application performance, security and productivity for users anywhere :

• 10X or greater acceleration of business-critical Cloud 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 largescale mobile deployments
• Scales to support up to 35,000 concurrent active mobile clients per controller

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

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Key Features for Client Accelerator

With Client Accelerator, being on the road, working from home, a coffee shop, client site, airport or at a remote office is no longer a barrier to getting things done. Client Accelerator delivers application acceleration to mobile workers anywhere.

Improves application performance with minimal delays :

• Provides a performance optimization solution for branch office and mobile workers
• Uses URL learning, page parsing, embedded object pre-fetching, and metadata acceleration modes
• Enables zero-touch bandwidth/ latency optimization of SSL/TLS connections, thus enhancing the performance of encrypted applications

Acceleration of business critical Web applications :

• Supports applications on-prem: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows applications (e.g., / SMBv3, Outlook anywhere, Kerberos), intranet portals, document management systems, and ERP and CRM applications (e.g., SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, Siebel)
• Supports leading enterprise SaaS applications: Microsoft O365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Box, Veeva and more
• Supports Mac OS 11.x, 12.x3, 13 and Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 – 22H2, Windows 11, Windows 11 – 22H2

Unmatched scalability :

• Easily scales network performance to multiple thousands of active concurrent mobile users

Complete visibility and control :

• Manages the configuration policies that determine what optimizations take place per user or groups of users
• Offers native visibility including aggregated and end point performance reports, client health reporting and an alarms library

Key Features for Client Accelerator Controller

With the Riverbed Client Accelerator Controller, you can centrally manage concurrent user licenses and software clients for Client Accelerator. The controller deploys Client Accelerator within a standard operating environment, without incurring additional costs.

Streamlines provisioning of large-scale deployments :

• Uses simple MSI (Microsoft installer) software packages to push clients to end-user laptops and PCs

Provides in-depth reporting capabilities :

• Includes in-depth reporting on client performance
• Generates reports on aggregated or individual statistics on throughput

Includes an efficient, costeffective, and flexible concurrent licensing model :

• Manages a pool of licenses with the addition of new licenses as needed
• Control costs by purchasing only the number of licenses needed
• Allows license management at the adaptor level and releases a license when an alternative (local branch) SteelHead solution can be used for optimization

Scales to allow for expansion :

• Supports up to 35,000 concurrent active mobile clients
• Clusters to scale beyond the capacity of an individual SteelHead Mobile Controller
• Creates high-availability configurations for accelerated remote access to key applications and data
• Offered in a variety of form factors to suit varying hybrid architecturest