Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor
WAN load balancing to integrate clusters of SteelHead appliances to manage up to one million concurrent connections

Formerly Known As: Interceptor appliance(s)

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Amplify the power of SteelHead Interceptor by clustering multiple solutions together

When you want more throughput or connections than just one SteelHead can provide — or if you want a high-availability deployment option —SteelHead Interceptor helps manage and scale your network-wide throughput.

What is a WAN load balancer?

SteelHead Interceptor enables customers to scale optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise, as well as very high bandwidth connections into the data center. SteelHead Interceptor clusters groups of SteelHeads to work together seamlessly and provides:

• Real-time dynamic load balancing of your SteelHeads
• Enhanced optimization for even greater throughput and bandwidth reduction
• The ability to add, modify, or remove SteelHeads in real time, with no disruption to operations
• Clustering of up to 20 SteelHeads to manage up to one million concurrent connections

How It Works

With SteelHead Interceptor, you can intelligently integrate all your SteelHead solutions while directing activity and network load with superior management and administration capabilities.

Whether you want more throughput or connections than just one SteelHead can provide – or if you desire a higher availability option – SteelHead Interceptor helps manage and scale SteelHead solutions.

TCP connection forwarding

• Ensures continuity between SteelHead appliances in large environments with asymmetrically-routed networks
• Supports one to four Interceptors, and up to 20 SteelHead solutions

Multiple configuration options

• Offers multiple configuration options − in series, in parallel and in quad
• Delivers multiple in-path clustering and flexible network failure options

Detailed visibility

• Supports up to 10 rules, tracing up to 1,000 connections for troubleshooting
• Works with the SteelHead IP Address and Port Transparency feature for more visibility

Speed with finely tuned control

• Supports 1 million optimized connections
• Exclusively provides hardware assist pass through
• Delivers fine grain control of what traffic gets optimized and how, with configurable load balancing rules
• Allows real time-cluster management without disruption to services

The Benefits of Steelhead Interceptor

SteelHead Interceptor makes it easy to extend the benefits of SteelHead solutions across a large enterprise, while centralizing management efforts and ensuring optimization services across the enterprise.

Optimization scalability and high-availability

• Increases scalability to accelerate more users and applications in high bandwidth environments
• Continues high availability operations by diverting to fully functional SteelHeads with a SteelHead or network failure
• Offers fair peering load-balancing intelligence that steers traffic to the optimal SteelHead
• Exclusively delivers the only load-balancing solution capable of assessing SteelHead appliances to most efficiently balance traffic

Simplified management for large enterprises

• Integrates with Riverbed SteelCentral Controller for centralized management and upgrades
• Automatically load-balances th entire SteelHead cluster
• Eliminates transmission of redundant data to offer the most bandwidth reduction

Visibility, optimization and control

• Increases application and data transfer performance up to 100x
• Delivers improved visibility with end user monitoring for all optimized traffic on premise and web and SaaS applications

	Data Center		Management
Model	INT9600	SCC1000	SMC9000
Profile	2U	1U
Effective LAN Throughput	40 Gbps1,2	-
Storage Fault Tolerance	RAID	-
Front Swappable Drives	23	25
RAM	32 GB		16 GB
Expansion Slots (PCI-e)	64	-
Included Bypass Ports (Copper)	4	-
Max. # of Bypass Ports	24	-
Max. # of Manageable Appliances	-	2,000	-

1. All LAN capacity, bandwidth, and TCP connections listed are maximums and may not be achieved in all environments 2. Requires 5 or greater 10G in-path interfaces and xbridge enabled 3. Hot swappable disks 4. Optional Network Bypass cards: Dual and Quad LX and SX GigE Fiber GigE, Quad Copper GigE, Dual 10GbE SR/LR 5. Internal hard disks

	DataCenter	Management
Model	INT9600	SCC1000	SMC9000
Dual Power Supplies		-
Power (Watts) Typical	227	50
BTU	774	165
Temperature2	10-35°C / 50-95°F (Operating) -40-70°C / -40-158°F (Storage)	0-45°C / 32-113°F (Operating) -40-65°C / -40-149°F (Storage)
Relative Humidity1	50%-90%, non-condensing with a maximum wet bulb of 28ºC (at temperatures from 25 to 35ºC)4	20%-80%, non-condensing (Operating) 5%-90%, non-condensing (Storage)
Operating Acoustic Noise	7.0 BA (Operating condition in typical office ambient temperature: 23 +/- 2ºC)	45 dBA
System Dimensions (LxWxH)3	27.87” x 17.24” x 3.45” 707.8 x 438 x 87.6mm	13.0” x 8.0” x 73” 330 x 204 x 44mm
Packaging Dimensions	36” x 24” x 14” 914.4 x 609.6 x 355.6mm	17.7” x 12.2” x 7” 450 x 310 x 180mm
Max Weight (without packaging)	40 lbs 18.14 kg	6 lbs 2.7 kg
Rail Information	Mounting Rail Kit Included Orderable Spare Part Numbers: RMK-1-VRAIL, RMK-1-PRAIL	Included Spare Part RMK-010 Orderable RMK-016

1. Operating altitude up to 10,000 feet except in China 6,562 feet (2,000m) 2. In China – for use in non-tropical locations 3. Length is without bezel 4. Shipping Humidity Spec for CXA-xxx70/INT9600 models NOTE: The availability, export or re-export of these products or specific features are subject to the export laws and regulations of the U.S. and the laws and regulations of any applicable foreign agency or authority

Pricing Notes:

• Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.