Case Study: Estradas de Portugal achieves 4x faster application performance, centralized backups and a 7-month ROI with Riverbed SteelHead WAN optimization

Estradas de Portugal - Customer Case Study

Estradas de Portugal, the government-owned agency that manages most of Portugal’s roads with 1,200 employees across 17 district offices, was struggling with slow access to centralized applications over 2 Mbps WAN links and fragmented, locally managed tape backups. Remote users experienced long delays downloading files, and centralizing backups was impractical without costly bandwidth upgrades estimated at over €48,000 per year.

The company deployed Riverbed SteelHead appliances, the Riverbed Services Platform and SteelHead Mobile across its data center and branches. This delivered a 4× increase in application performance, a 5.5× reduction in bandwidth use, removal of 17 tape backup units and 17 local Windows servers, centralized secure backups, improved mobile access—and a payback in about seven months while avoiding the planned bandwidth upgrade.

Estradas de Portugal

Rui Ribeiro

IT Manager