Riverbed SteelHead Configuration

In many enterprise environments, applications are distributed geographically. Distributing applications can help to reduce costs, provide higher availability, and can be useful when knowledgeable IT resources are located in geographies outside of an application's customer base. Unfortunately, remote applications often suffer from poor performance caused by high network latency and low throughput.

Riverbed SteelHead's wide area network (WAN) optimization products strive to solve these problems by compressing and de-duplicating network traffic. However, for encrypted traffic, Riverbed SteelHead's products can only be effective when data can be effectively decrypted and inspected.

The Venafi Trust Protection Platform streamlines the process of updating Riverbed SteelHead appliances to ensure that encrypted traffic is processed along with non-encyrpted traffic.

This section provides the information you need to correctly configure a Riverbed SteelHead application object.