Case Study: Schneider Electric achieves 75% WAN traffic reduction and LAN-like application performance with Riverbed

Riverbed Cloud Steelhead appliances support IT migration to cloud computing, SaaS and IaaS

Schneider Electric, a global energy-management specialist with operations in about 100 countries, faced worsening WAN latency and higher data transfer rates after consolidating applications into outsourced data centers. Because the data centers were managed by third parties, Schneider couldn’t reconfigure core networking gear and needed an in-path solution to preserve user experience while centralizing services.

Riverbed deployed SteelHead WAN optimization appliances and Interceptor load‑balancing appliances, with Riverbed Professional Services architecting and phasing the rollout. The combination delivered LAN-like application performance, let Schneider scale capacity without disrupting the data centers, cut optimized WAN traffic by about 75%, and reduced IT costs while avoiding costly bandwidth upgrades.

Schneider Electric

Lionel Marie

Network Innovation Leader