Case Study: Roxtec achieves centralized control and scalable global IT with Riverbed

Riverbed helps global manufacturing company scale its business and take central control

Roxtec, a Sweden‑based manufacturer of cable and pipe sealing solutions with 23 subsidiaries, 700 employees and $220M in revenue, was struggling with a widely dispersed and fragmented IT estate. Local servers and backups at branch sites generated heavy WAN traffic, strained bandwidth, complicated management and threatened scalability as the company grew 10–15% annually.

Roxtec deployed Riverbed solutions (SteelFusion, SteelHead, SteelCentral and SteelHead Mobile) to centralize data in its Swedish data center, project working sets to branches, optimize WAN traffic and support mobile sales users. The move consolidated IT control and backups, improved security and sped provisioning of new sites, cutting WAN traffic by up to 30% and MAPI traffic by 65% while delivering a more scalable, higher‑performance user experience.

Roxtec

Johan Jartelius

Chief Information Officer