SAN FRANCISCO: Riverbed Technology, Inc. announced that LG Electronics has selected and deployed Riverbed's wide-area data services (WDS) Steelhead appliances in and around the world to accelerate application performance over its globally distributed wide area network (WAN) and control bandwidth costs.

With more than 100 offices outside its headquarters, LG Electronics has a massive investment in bandwidth and infrastructure. Prior to the installation of Riverbed's Steelhead appliances, the LG Electronics network was being stretched to its capacity. The company was also experiencing an increased usage across all locations and  increases in the number of internal applications requiring network access.

“The Steelhead appliances performed better than the competition,” said Mr.Kang-Seok Chung, senior manager, IT Infrastructure Group at LG Electronics. “They produced the fastest response times for the offerings tested and they supported more of our critical protocols. Riverbed also did a better job of reducing WAN traffic. Finally, the Steelhead appliances were the easiest to manage, which is a critical component to a successful global deployment as large as ours.” he added.

“Bandwidth is not cheap for international companies, especially in the Asia Pacific region,” continued Mr. Chung. “But immediately after deploying the Steelhead appliances, we saw a reduction in bandwidth utilization of 40% in critical parts of our global network. With Riverbed, we have reduced our bandwidth cost significantly, while creating faster access times for our remote employees.”

After deploying the Steelhead appliances, LG Electronics' critical applications experienced 'immediate' and 'significant' performance results, the release said.