Case Study: Builders FirstSource achieves massive bandwidth increases and up to 90% lower latency with HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD‑WAN

Improving business efficiency and user experience

Builders FirstSource, the largest U.S. supplier of structural building products and value‑added components to the professional construction market, needed to modernize a legacy router‑centric WAN that limited bandwidth and complicated remote site operations. The company’s objectives were to simplify the WAN, increase available bandwidth at remote sites, and centralize management while delivering enterprise-class performance.

By deploying HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD‑WAN, EdgeConnect Boost WAN Optimization and the EdgeConnect Orchestrator, Builders FirstSource increased available bandwidth from 1.5 Mbps to as much as 250 Mbps at some sites, cut application latency by up to 90%, and reduced time to bring a new site online from a full day to about 20 minutes. The solution delivered better application performance, improved end‑user experience and productivity, and more granular visibility and control over application traffic.

Builders FirstSource

Greg Taylor

Senior Network Engineer