Case Study: Mott MacDonald achieves LAN-like performance and massive bandwidth savings with Riverbed SteelHead and SteelCentral

Mott MacDonald - Customer Case Study

Mott MacDonald is a £1.3bn, employee‑owned global engineering and management consultancy with 17,000 staff across 180+ offices in 150 countries. Its geographically dispersed project teams relied on local file servers, causing heavy data replication, version‑control issues and growing WAN congestion as applications and BIM models swelled to 1–2GB—slowing collaboration and straining IT resources.

After a proof of concept, Mott MacDonald deployed Riverbed SteelHead and SteelCentral Controller across nearly 100 sites to optimize the WAN and centralize services. The result: LAN‑like remote performance, file transfers up to 10x faster (search 3x faster), an average 2.7x network optimization (up to 8x), ~40TB/month bandwidth savings, consolidation to four data centers, improved recovery times, enabled VoIP/video and Office365 adoption, and measurable productivity gains and ROI.

Mott MacDonald

Bradley Tullett

Global Infrastructure Manager