Case Study: Energy Future Holdings achieves faster application performance and up to 60% bandwidth reduction with Riverbed Steelhead and Cascade

With Riverbed® Steelhead® and Cascade®, Energy Future Holdings overcame response time and application issues and saved big

Energy Future Holdings, a major electricity provider in Texas, was struggling with slow application performance and long response times across its network. The IT team lacked end-to-end visibility to pinpoint server-to-client issues, and problems that once took four to eight hours to resolve were disrupting operations.

After deploying Riverbed Steelhead and Cascade, the company gained detailed application visibility and proactive diagnostics, enabling fixes in minutes rather than hours. Bandwidth and telco utilization fell by roughly 50–60%, reducing IT travel and management costs and helping avoid large investments and costly network upgrades.

Energy Future Holdings