California Department of Fish and Wildlife

SteelHead Enables Doubling of Network Traffic Without Bandwidth Upgrades
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Challenges

  • 90% network saturation slowed applications, frustrating end users and limiting inter-agency collaboration
  • Transition from Novell to Microsoft temporarily doubled network traffic, slowing network performance
  • Tape backup at the branch offices
  • Reducing costs around software licensing

Benefits

  • Lower software licensing costs
  • More productive users
  • Transitioned to Microsoft without bandwidth upgrades

Overview

California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) maintains the state’s native fish, wildlife, plant species, and natural communities. The agency’s work includes habitat protection and management of fish and wildlife for recreational, commercial, scientific and educational purposes. Headquartered in Sacramento, CDFW has 3,000 employees and operates 117 facilities around the state.

“Riverbed is facilitating the move to an environment where almost everything is centralized,” says Adams. “It makes getting information back and forth between our field offices easier and faster; and with the State of California Email Service transition, this technology will help hide the 11 additional hops being added between Outlook client and Exchange server.

 

Solution

 

The benefit to the overall user experience is immeasurable.

Erik Davis, Network Projects Consultant

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Some groups would work independently and then email documents to each other rather than work on shared file stores because of the level of saturation

Erik Davis, Network Projects Consultant

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

California Department
Location

Sacramento, United States

Industry

Government

Solutions
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