Riverbed Cascade

Advanced visibility and analysis for network and application performance

Riverbed® Cascade® is a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solution for network and application visibility. To deliver the performance that the business needs, network and application teams need complete visibility into the applications, servers, and users on their network. Cascade fulfills this need by collecting traffic data from switches, routers, and other devices, calculating performance metrics, and alerting you to problems before end-users are impacted.

With Cascade, you get the visibility you need to address top network priorities like network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. You can understand company-wide application dependencies, perform end-user experience monitoring in real-time, and get a true picture of outages or infrastructure changes. As a result, you reduce risks, costs, and business impact.

For network optimization and analysis, you can:

• Plan for WAN optimization, assess the impact of your deployment, and quantify benefits
• Analyze WAN and LAN traffic to any level of depth
• Measure performance in both optimised and non-optimised environments

For application performance management, you can:

• Monitor a wide variety of applications in an easy, cost-effective way
• Minimize the impact and duration of service outages
• Resolve issues proactively through powerful behavioral analytics
• Measure application and network performance from the end-user perspective

For IT consolidation, you can:

• Reduce the costs and risks of data centre and server consolidation
• Accelerate application discovery and dependency mapping