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The Riverbed Interceptor appliance extends the performance capabilities of Steelhead appliances to satisfy the requirements of very large data center environments. This enables customers to scale their WAN optimization solutions to support hundreds of thousands of end users across an enterprise as well as very high bandwidth connections into the data center by clustering groups of Steelhead appliances to work together seamlessly. Further the Interceptor appliance can greatly simply the network set up while offering an even wider range of high availability configurations for when WAN optimization becomes a critical part of the IT infrastructure.