# Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor Reviews
**Vendor:** Riverbed Technology  
**Category:** [Load Balancing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-balancing)
## About Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor
When you want more throughput or connections than just one SteelHead can provide – or if you desire a high-availability deployment option – SteelHead Interceptor helps manage and scale your enterprise-wide network throughput. With SteelHead Interceptor, you can intelligently integrate your SteelHead optimization fabric while directing activity and network load with superior management and administration capabilities. SteelHead Interceptor delivers the only load-balancing solution capable of assessing SteelHead pressures and seamlessly steers traffic to the optimal SteelHead to continuously and efficiently scale application traffic. 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






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## Riverbed SteelHead Interceptor Features
**Usability - Load Balancing**
- User Interface Design
- Setup Simplicity
- Platform Integration
- Container Support

**Performance Optimization - Load Balancing**
- Global Load Balancing
- Dynamic Resource Allocation
- Server Health Monitoring
- Disaster Recovery

**Security & Compliance - Load Balancing**
- SSL/TLS Termination
- Application Firewall Integration
- DDoS Mitigation
- Access Control
- IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting

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