Power and Automation Case Study Riverbed visibility ensures peak performance of core apps whose outage costs $1 million/day ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, the company employs 150,000 people and operates in approximately 100 countries. Challenge: One person manages network; it is always blamed when application issues arise ABB’s North American operations employ about 30,000 people in manufacturing, service and other facilities across the continent. As ABB North America’s network infrastructure and operations manager, Michael Kerkau has the sole responsibility for the performance of the wide area network that connects those 30,000 people with each other and with the company’s data center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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