Case Study: Sub‑Zero Group achieves 50% WAN traffic reduction and faster Office 365 performance with Riverbed Application Performance Platform

Sub-Zero Group - Customer Case Study

Sub‑Zero Group, Inc., a third‑generation, family‑owned maker of luxury appliances based in Madison, WI, centralized roughly 350 applications into a single datacenter and needed to deliver consistently fast performance across a hybrid WAN linking headquarters, manufacturing sites, distributors and showrooms. The IT consolidation challenge was to ensure responsive access to critical apps (Office 365, Infor XA, SolidWorks, VoIP) and smooth HD video for customer showrooms while gaining application‑aware, end‑to‑end network visibility for remote troubleshooting.

Sub‑Zero deployed Riverbed SteelHead (physical, virtual and SaaS) and SteelCentral NPM (NetProfiler, NetShark, Flow Gateway) to accelerate SaaS and datacenter traffic and provide deep network analytics. The rollout cut WAN traffic by about 50%, shrank OneDrive save times from 10 seconds to 2, improved showroom video performance, reduced troubleshooting to under a minute, and created a scalable foundation for future SaaS migration and infrastructure improvements.

Sub-Zero Group

Eric Niebuhr

IT Supervisor and Network Engineer