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Riverbedriverbed.comRiverbed provides the Riverbed Platform, an AI-powered observability and digital experience platform that delivers real-time visibility across networks, applications, and endpoints to prevent disruptions. The platform combines network and infrastructure observability (NPM+, AppResponse, NetIM), application observability (APM+), data movement (Riverbed Data Express), and edge/accelerations (SteelHead family) with no/low-code automation and OTel integrations to enable autonomous operations. Its goal is zero disruption through AI-driven proactive troubleshooting and remediation, governed AI agents, and integrations with ITSM and enterprise tools across hybrid IT environments.
The market map · 5 of 100 labelled
Network and Data Center Monitoring Software →Where Riverbed ranks in AI
Often described as
end-user experience monitoring · strong · large enterprises · leader · long-established · tcp optimization
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Excerpts where Riverbed appeared in the AI's answer
Riverbed SteelHead / SD-WAN : Riverbed accelerates virtual desktop and remote protocols
Riverbed SteelHead — a mature WAN-optimization platform aimed at reducing bandwidth consumption and mitigating latency/congestion.
Excerpts where Riverbed appeared in the AI's answer
Riverbed Technology : The legacy heavyweight in WAN optimization via its SteelHead product line.
Riverbed — a traditional WAN-optimization specialist worth evaluating when you have significant inter-site traffic and want acceleration rather than simply better routing.
Excerpts where Riverbed appeared in the AI's answer
Riverbed NPM (Profiler/AppResponse) - Best For: Deep packet capture, forensics, and transactional analysis.
Riverbed NPM (Profiler/AppResponse) remains the gold standard for deep packet inspection (DPI) and forensics
