Case Study: Endwave Corporation achieves faster file sharing and improved employee productivity with Riverbed Steelhead appliances

Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Improve Employee Productivity by Accelerating File Sharing between Distributed Offices

Endwave Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of RF subsystems for wireless infrastructure with offices and manufacturing sites in California, Massachusetts and Thailand, struggled with slow file sharing across its WAN. Engineers regularly collaborated on large CAD files stored on remote servers, and long copy/download times between sites were hurting employee productivity and slowing design cycles.

To fix this, Endwave deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances between its major sites. The appliances were quick to install and required no client/server changes, and immediately sped transfers dramatically — a 5MB CAD file that once took minutes now copies in under two seconds. The result was faster file access and email attachments, improved collaboration and productivity, and shorter design-to-market timelines.

Endwave Corporation

Patrick OSullivan

Endwaves Director of IT