Riverbed Cascade Profiler

Riverbed CascadeRiverbed Cascade Profiler provides advanced visibility and analysis for network and application performance, collecting traffic data from switches, routers and other devices, calculating performance metrics and alerting you to problems before end users are impacted.

Also available as a Teneo Managed Riverbed Cascade Service, Cascade Profiler combines flow analysis, packet analysis and retrospective packet capture to provide an integrated, top-down, application-aware performance monitoring and management solution.

Network Managers can understand company-wide application dependencies, drill down to transactions and perform end-user experience monitoring in real-time. As a result, the impact and duration of service outages is minimised and network management costs are reduced.

Riverbed Cascade Profiler Benefits:
  • Drills down into network data to immediately determine the source of any performance bottlenecks
  • Provides visibility into the application delivery path, from back-end servers to the user's desktop
  • Learns normal application and network behaviour including response time, user connections, and bandwidth utilisation
  • Provides behavioural analysis to determine when current conditions are outside of normal behaviour patterns
  • Offers visibility into HTTP traffic to distinguish between web front-ended business applications and non-business use
  • Gives baseline information of typical interactions of users, servers, network, and applications by time of day, day of week
  • Provides actionable alerts with rich contextual information to streamline the troubleshooting process
  • Deploys in minutes without changes to applications, users, routers, or IT infrastructure
  • Integrates easily and seamlessly into the most complex network environments
  • Scales to hundreds of sites with any-to-any connectivity. Support thousands of users on one device
  • Provides executive-level dashboards, service discovery wizard, service performance reports

New in Cascade 9.5

  • Virtual Cascade Shark
  • Load balancing integration into service maps and monitoring in Profiler
  • Closer integration between Cascade Shark and Profiler - richer application data e.g. for VoIP, drill down to MOSS & Jitter data
  • Multi-segment analysis
  • Precision timestamp support
  • VoIP quality reporting

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IDC report shows a 5 month ROI for Riverbed Cascade


IDC found Cascade a key enabling technology for organisations with challenges such as aligning the network with business priorities, consolidation and flexibility to support new business policies. The report found that customers deploying Cascade experienced such benefits as:
  • A payback period of 5.5 months
  • 34% fewer downtime incidents per month
  • Average incident duration cut by 51%
  • Mean Time To Repair reduced from 12.8 hours to just 2.1 hours on average

Cascade Product Line


Cascade is an agentless monitoring solution that allows fast and cost-effective implementation.

Cascade Gateway:

  • Collects network flow data from devices on the network
  • Supports all flow types
  • Is deployed with Profiler or regionally

Cascade Sensor:

  • Inspects packets and gathers Layer 7 application performance information
  • Monitors the end-user experience
  • Is deployed in the data centre

Cascade Sensor-VE:

Cascade Profiler:

  • Correlates information collected by Sensors & Gateways
  • Offers behavioural analytics
  • Provides centralised reporting and analysis of network problems
  • Sends performance and security alerts
  • Sized based on flow per minute capacity

Wireshark Logo
Following its recent acquisition of CACE Technologies, Inc., Riverbed is the new sponsor of the Wireshark open source development project. The Cascade range includes Riverbed Cascade Shark (formerly known as the CACE Shark appliance) and Riverbed Cascade Pilot (formerly known as CACE Pilot Console).

Cascade Shark is an appliance capable of sustained, multi-gigabit per second recording of network traffic.

Cascade Pilot is a network analysis software product that seamlessly and securely integrates with Cascade Shark and Riverbed Steelhead appliances for a fully distributed, easy to manage packet capture solution. Cascade Pilot is the only network analysis tool to be fully integrated with Wireshark.