Case Study
ROUSE
ROUSE Global Intellectual Property law firm improves inter-office collaboration, productivity and network management using Riverbed’s SteelHead WAN Optimization solution Rouse is a global IP firm specializing in the creation, management, commercialization and enforcement of IP rights. The firm realized early on that they needed to be present in the more challenging markets of Asia and the Middle East, as well as Europe, because that’s where their clients, wanted and needed them to be. Rouse now has 16 offices in 13 countries around the world, with a team of 600 lawyers, patent and trade mark attorneys and evidence specialists. Back in 2009, Rouse had a distributed network architecture utilizing the Internet, MPLS, VPNs and a corporate WAN. Many applications were centraliz