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Solutia Saves Big Bucks With WAN Optimization: Page 3 of 4

Solutia has also boosted its SAP and HTTP Web traffic, as well as its file shares and printing, according to Goturi.

“Instead of send 500 Megabytes of [printing] traffic across all the sites, it’s now 41 Megabytes,” he says.

Despite these performance benefits, the exec told Byte and Switch that there are still areas where he would like to see Riverbed enhance its Steelhead offerings.

“I would like them to expand their appliance to be more intelligent from an application software perspective,” he says. “Virtualization would be one feature [and] an Internet Proxy would be another.”

Currently Solutia uses a Microsoft proxy server at its HQ to filter Internet traffic across its sites, although placing a proxy in remote locations could block Internet requests at the LAN level, reducing the amount of traffic on the WAN.