Hi Jordan, I'm new myself to Riverbed but there is so much collateral to get going. I will assist you in helping you understand what Aptimizer can do. I copied the below snippet from another page that can help you understand the role of Aptimizer. The Stingray TM will help you load balance the web traffic while enabling Aptimizer optimizes it. Hope this helps ! Regards, Arun Stingray Aptimizer is a Web Performance Optimization (WPO) tool that performs just-in-time optimizations to web applications.  This results in web pages loading up to 4x faster while using 30% less bandwidth. Stingray Aptimizer Technical Overview ... View more