Case Study: JLL achieves superior application performance and 2.8x network capacity with Riverbed SteelHead

Riverbed Helps JLL Maximize Productivity in Transition to Hybrid Apps and Networks

JLL, a global professional services and real estate investment firm with roughly 58,000 employees across 230 offices in 80+ countries, needed to evolve its IT environment to support hybrid applications, growing analytics and live‑video collaboration, and a move from MPLS to dual high‑speed Internet links—without degrading application performance or ballooning costs.

To address this, JLL deployed 100+ Riverbed SteelHead EX appliances with Virtual Services Platform and HTTP stream‑splitting to optimize WAN traffic, stage patches locally and offload branch servers. The result: dramatically improved application performance, support for live video and next‑generation apps, removal of servers from >90% of offices, and major bandwidth savings (SSL traffic reduced on average 60%/peak 80% for a 2.5× capacity gain; overall data reduced 64%/peak 90% for a 2.8× gain), delivering significant cost and IT‑management reductions.

JLL

Joe Ryan

Chief Technology Officer, Americas