Case Study: Traffic Planning and Design achieves 85% WAN bandwidth reduction and $78K annual savings with Riverbed Steelhead appliances

Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Reduce Bandwidth Consumption and Improve Productivity and Collaboration

Traffic Planning and Design (TPD) is a 90-person consulting engineering firm with three Pennsylvania offices that relies on large Bentley MicroStation CAD files and frequent collaboration across locations. TPD’s WAN—limited to single T1 links—was creating slow file access and high management costs, and the company needed to centralize servers and establish a reliable infrastructure to support future branch expansion.

TPD deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances in each office (and includes them in new-office rollouts) to accelerate application and file traffic. The appliances cut peak WAN bandwidth use by 85%, reclaimed about one hour per CAD user per day (about $78,000 saved annually), enabled centralized IT management and faster software rollouts/backups, and improved project collaboration and flexibility for staff while simplifying new-site deployments.

Traffic Planning and Design

Karl Fischer

IT Manager