Case Study: Schneider Electric achieves LAN-like WAN performance with Riverbed and Teneo

Energy management company optimises network performance to outsourced Data Centres with Riverbed

Schneider Electric, a global energy management company, faced significant network latency and user experience challenges after centralizing its applications into outsourced data centers. The constraints of their outsourced IT model prevented them from making the necessary network configurations internally. To overcome this, they turned to the vendor Teneo and implemented Riverbed's SteelHead and SteelHead Interceptor WAN optimization appliances to improve performance without costly bandwidth upgrades.

The solution provided by Teneo and Riverbed Professional Services involved deploying SteelHead appliances at branch offices and SteelHead Interceptors in the data centers. This architecture delivered LAN-like application performance over the WAN and enabled intelligent load balancing. The implementation resulted in a 75% reduction in optimized network traffic, provided massive cost savings by avoiding bandwidth upgrades, and allowed for non-disruptive, scalable expansion without any service interruptions to their data centers.

Schneider Electric

Lionel Marie

Network Innovation Leader