Steel head CXA 5055-M

Trade Agreement: NONE Tendering Procedures: Attachment: None Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Vendor Name and Address: Riverbed Technology 501 Second Street Suite 410 San Francisco California United States 94107 Nature of Requirements:

Nature of Requirement

PWGSC File Number: W8474-14MG23/A Contracting Authority: Daniela Vasilescu Popa Telephone: 819-956-6678 Fax: 819-956-1156 Descriptive Title: Riverbed Steel head CXA 5055-M Suggested supplier: Riverbed Technology, or one of their designated resellers

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Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), on behalf of the Department of National Defence Canada (DND), has a requirement for the supply and delivery of 4 CX-5055M Riverbed Steelheads in accordance with the attached Annex A- Technical specifications. The contract also includes documentation and the provision of one-year, return to depot warranty/maintenance services. There is also an option for purchase of 4 additional CX-5055M Riverbed Steelheads. The estimated cost of the requirement (including the options) is $472,940.89, taxes included. The items are to be delivered to Ottawa, Ontario.

The Department of National Defence (DND) Mercury Global project C.0002523 has a requirement to redesign the existing Canadian Forces (CF) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) network from a serial based network to an internet protocol (IP) based network.

The scope of the project is to implement a new SATCOM Network Gateway capability at each of Satellite anchor station site using pre-existing and new hardware currently deployed by the CF. It is imperative that the requested equipment be interoperable with currently owned and functioning equipment to ensure system compatibility.

The CX-5055M Steelheads from Riverbed Technology requested are the sole equipment that can ensure a seamless integration with existing satellite communications hardware, and are compatible with the hardware acquired by the ADM (IM) DIMEI group under the Shared Services Canada (SSC) Network Equipment Standing Offer (NESS SO) EN869-060297/002/EO. Because the SCPS protocol for satellite optimization is critical for the solution to function, and the compatibility of the design must be interoperable with existing hardware, this hardware must be proprietary to Riverbed Technology, the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Government Procurement (WTO-AGP), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) and the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the services/goods described herein may submit a statement of capabilities in writing to the contracting authority identified in this notice on or before the closing date of this notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

ANNEX A-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

- Minimum WAN Optimized throughput of 200 Mbps

- Must be compatible with the "SCPS License on 5055 Series" license

- Availability of SCPS protocol for satellite optimization

- Ability to support optimization of signed SMB/SMB2 traffic

- Ability to pre-populate CIFS and HTTP data on the client side device

- Ability to support optimization of UDP and IPv6 traffic

- Ability to support Full Transparency mode including for OOB connections

- Ability to perform protocol specific optimization for Outlook Anywhere

- Ability to perform deep packet inspection for QoS marking and enforcement on the device

- Ability to perform packet capture on-demand on any interface

- Ability to perform application specific optimizations of data replication traffic including FCIP and SRDF

- Ability to perform client side video stream replication to reduce the traffic transiting the WAN

- Ability to perform all of the above requirements simultaneously on the same device

- Interoperable with existing Canadian Forces SATCOM equipment currently in place.

Physical Specifications

- Minimum Optimized WAN throughput of 200Mbps

- Ability to optimize 13,000 concurrent connections

- Fault tolerant RAID configuration for storage

- Support hot-swappable drives

- Use of SSDs for data de-duplication performance

- Four (4) on board 1Gbps bypass ports

- Onboard 10/100/1000 Mbps management port

- Ability to add two (2) 1Gbps fibre bypass ports

- Fit within 2U on a standard 19" rack

- No longer than 27"

- Include rails for 19" rack installation

- Support physical inline deployment for all bypass interfaces

- Support fail to wire on all bypass interfaces

Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting officer identified above.

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