Case Study: B/E Aerospace achieves faster centralized application performance and 60% WAN traffic reduction with Riverbed SteelHead and SteelCentral

B/E Aerospace - Customer Case Study

B/E Aerospace, a global leader in commercial and military cabin and avionics design with about 30,000 employees across 50 locations, was struggling with slow performance from centralized applications hosted in a co‑location facility. Budget constraints prevented increasing bandwidth, and identifying the root causes of slowdowns—affecting systems like Teamcenter, ERP, and custom .NET apps—could take hours or days.

By deploying Riverbed SteelHead for WAN optimization together with SteelCentral AppResponse and AppInternals for end‑to‑end application visibility, B/E centralized and accelerated its application environment and sped troubleshooting. The result: one application’s login time dropped by 50%, WAN traffic fell by 60%, issues are diagnosed in minutes rather than days, and both developer response times and user satisfaction improved significantly.

B/E Aerospace

Chris Elder

Senior Manager, Enterprise Networks and Data Center Operations