Return on Investment Calculator
Directions: Based on your input, we will estimate your ROI from a Riverbed Steelhead appliance and/or Steelhead Mobile deployment. If you do not have a quote from Riverbed, leave it blank and we will estimate deployment cost.
Number of branch offices    
Number of people per branch office (average)    
Average employee salary (annual) $
Number of file/application servers per office (average)    
Tape backup in remote offices    
Rate of networked application usage per average employee (include email, intranet, file sharing, etc.)    
Collaboration among offices    
Desired level of consolidation    
Optional:
Include Steelhead Mobile Software for mobile worker acceleration?    
Total number of mobile workers (workers who travel)    
Use RSP to virtualize branch edge services
(examples include Print, Streaming, DNS/DHCP, etc.)
   
IT Costs  
IT personnel salary (annual) $
Current monthly bandwidth costs per office $
Incremental bandwidth upgrade costs per office (future - current) $
Cost of remote office server (hardware) $
Cost of remote office server (software + support) $
Cost of remote office tape backup (machine + tapes) $
IT time spent managing a remote server or tape backup    
Annual energy cost of remote server $
   
Riverbed Costs - If you have a quote for a Riverbed deployment and support, enter it here (otherwise enter $0 and we will estimate costs)
   
Riverbed Product Quote $
Riverbed Annual Support Quote $