Rouse & Co. Deploys Riverbed

Rouse & Company International, a global intellectual property firm, has selected Riverbed (News - Alert) Steelhead WDS appliances across its organization.

 

Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of server problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.

Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart.

 

Launched in the UK in 1990, Rouse & Company International provides a comprehensive portfolio of intellectual property services, from the implementation of global investigation, enforcement and protection strategies, to the provision of commercial services, such as filing, research, management and data protection.

 

"We were experiencing poor application performance across the wide area network (WAN), while the cost of upgrading our Internet-based, inter-office VPNs to managed P2P MPLS circuits was simply not viable -- especially in those countries with state-owned telecoms. Time recording and billing for fee earners, the trademark database and our Intranet were the main culprits, although all applications centralized in the UK were subject to poor performance across the WAN," said Jonathan Bruce, global head of IT at Rouse & Co. International.

 

After evaluating various available options in the market, Bruce chose the Riverbed Steelhead appliances for a scalable approach to accelerate applications across the WAN.

 

"It was the ease-of-deployment and simplicity of support, combined with the ability to accelerate a broad range of applications, which really differentiated Riverbed for us. The Riverbed Steelhead appliance does what it says on the box: you just plug it in and it works,” Bruce explained.

 

Starting in the UK and Indonesia, 13 Riverbed Steelhead appliances were deployed in 12 Rouse & Company International offices through a phased rollout.

 

This deployment included the Riverbed Central Management Console (CMC), responsible for simplified management of the Riverbed Steelhead appliances, and providing a single, Web-based interface giving greater visibility of application performance across the WAN.

 

"The CMC definitely eases the administrative burden and you get an instant view across all of the appliances," stated Bruce.

 

Following the deployment of the Steelhead appliances, Rouse & Co. International has experienced improved performance in a number of areas.

 

"In one month, the total reduction in bandwidth utilization across all applications and sites was 78 percent -- delivering a 4.5 times increase in capacity," highlighted Bruce. "And opening a document in Jakarta from London is 34 times faster, thanks to a 97 percent reduction in latency on the link."