BigBand Networks

In Brief

• SteelHead appliances deployed worldwide
• Avoided $90,000 in expenses related to distributing SharePoint deployment
• Citrix licenses reduced by 1/3, while enabling remote users to have full access to native Oracle client application
• Application acceleration and bandwidth optimization provide consistent application performance worldwide
• Employees have access to any data, in every office, whenever they need it
• WAN bandwidth usage reduced by almost 50%

Summary

BigBand Networks needed to deliver uniform application delivery to all their employees, worldwide. The company wanted to maintain a decentralized approach to applications, but allow users to easily share data anywhere. BigBand also wanted to gain greater productivity and efficient inter-office collaboration by accelerating application performance over the WAN.

By deploying Riverbed SteelHead appliances, BigBand was able to dramatically reduce the need for Citrix licenses, and roll out native Oracle applications that delivered better performance and functionality for their users. Riverbed also enabled BigBand to reduce their WAN bandwidth usage by almost 50%.

BigBand employees now have accelerated access to data, regardless of their location. Company data and applications are now available to any employee, in any location, any time they need it.