Riverbed has announced the End-of-Life for it’s first Steelhead Mobile Controller 8500, replacing it with the SMC8650, or the SMC-VE virtualised platform.
The SMC8650 supports 40 concurrent licenses, up from 30 in the previous model, and effectively moves the platform to the new hardware basis that Riverbed is using, as has been seen with the recent EOL announcements for other platforms in the Steelhead line.
John Dixon
John Dixon is the Principal Consultant of thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd, based in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience, (including, but not limited to) operating, designing and optimizing systems and networks for customers from global to domestic in scale. He has worked with many international brands to implement both data centres and wide-area networks across a range of industries. He is currently supporting a major SD-WAN vendor on the implementation of an environment supporting a major global fast-food chain.