Case Study: Aelia achieves 8x faster file transfers and 80% bandwidth savings with Riverbed Steelhead appliances

Riverbed Steelhead Products Solve Bandwidth and Application Performance Problems for a Leading Travel Retail Company

Aelia is a leading European travel retailer operating over 130 sales points across airports, trains and in‑flight networks. With a highly distributed workforce relying on SAP, Lotus Notes and large file exchanges, the company faced WAN latency, bandwidth congestion and the risk that centralizing storage at headquarters would slow application performance and complicate backups.

Aelia deployed 14 Riverbed Steelhead appliances and a Central Management Console to optimize WAN traffic and accelerate protocols. The rollout cut file transfer times by up to 85%, reduced bandwidth use by over 80%, boosted average throughput roughly 40x, consolidated eight remote servers, avoided about €130,000 in IT refresh costs, and simplified administration—delivering LAN‑like performance, centralized backups and improved employee productivity.

Aelia

Olivier Rideau

Systems and Production Group manager