Case Study: JCDecaux achieves 10x faster application access and 70% bandwidth reduction with Riverbed SteelHead appliances

Riverbed Technology accelerates speed of access to information, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction for advertising company

JCDecaux España, the Spanish arm of the global outdoor advertising company with 550 employees across 23 offices, was hampered by slow WAN performance that made accessing business‑critical systems and files very slow — logins took up to 10 minutes and staff were unable to work efficiently. The bottleneck affected dozens of regional offices and threatened productivity and employee satisfaction.

After a successful pilot, JCDecaux deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances to eight offices to optimize WAN traffic and accelerate applications. The rollout cut PC login times from about 10 minutes to under a minute (saving roughly 12,000 work hours a year), improved application and file access by about 10x (e.g., spreadsheets opening in 17 seconds versus 23 minutes), and reduced bandwidth use by 70%, enabling faster large‑file sharing and happier, more productive employees.

JCDecaux

Fernando Rodriguez

Infrastructure and Telecommunications manager