© 2012 Autodesk Go Mobile with your Projects: Using Riverbed technology for remote collaboration. Mark R. Schlicher Partner, Collaboration Systems Group

© 2012 Autodesk Using Riverbed for remote acceleration Definition of the problem: Slow VPN connections How does Riverbed technology help? File-centric vs Model-centric (AutoCAD vs Revit workflows) CSG BIMcloud: Host your model on our cloud server

© 2012 Autodesk Branch Office Remote Offices Mobile Employees HQ Data Center I/WAN/VPN Project Files CAD Docs Etc.

© 2012 Autodesk LAN switch Branch Office Data Center Riverbed Router TCP Packet Compression (with WAN accelerators) 64k Typical TCP packet (no WAN accelerators) 1mb Data T1 /MPLS/VPN Scalable Data Referencing Transaction Prediction Data

© 2012 Autodesk Remote Employee Internet Project Data router firewall LAN switch servers users Data Store Project Partner router firewall CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client We started with a Local Area Network (LAN) We grew into a Wide Area Network (WAN) as additional office’s were added We look to centrally host a project but access it with CAD clients distributed throughout Project data was posted and distributed to the team With the use of the internet we try to collaborate with remote users and partners We employed portals like “Buzzsaw” to ease our ability to share information with the team Doc. Mgmt T1 / MPLS router Remote Office CAD Client Collaboration Portal Server CCCCC

© 2012 Autodesk Remote Employee Internet Project Data router firewall LAN switch servers users Data Store Project Partner router firewall CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client Slow transfer time for often very large files Change by team members are only available after project is re-synced to portal Design problems are often unable to be detected until the project has been re-synced Project data needs to be re-synced with project owner to be backed up These portal exist outside the document management solution Doc. Mgmt T1 / MPLS router Remote Office CAD Client Collaboration Portal Server C C C C C These challenges prevent “True Collaboration”

© 2012 Autodesk Remote Employee servers Data Store Project Partner CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client CAD Client With the addition of Riverbed WAN accelerators Remote office servers and collaboration portals can be removed Mobile client receive a license to “peer” with a Riverbed device Project data is hosted and controlled by the project owner Partners and remote employees brought in by VPN client receive a Riverbed Mobile client The mobile clients and other Riverbed device “peer” and begin to optimize traffic Doc. Mgmt Remote Office CAD Client Collaboration Portal Server Riverbed SMC Distributed CAD clients access the project in “real time” router T1 / MPLS router LAN switch Project Data Riverbed firewall router Internet router firewall users

© 2012 Autodesk SMC firewall router Internet VPN connections router T1 / MPLS Remote Office same domain Partner firm Different domain Remote Project member router firewall Revit Users- LAN

© 2012 Autodesk Model hosted on CSG Server Nothing to Purchase-monthly subscription Don’t guess…..we’ll prove it ! NOTE: Nothing about this solution set is proprietary. We make no changes to how you use Revit.

© 2012 Autodesk firewall SMC firewall router Internet VPN connections Your Office Partner firm Remote Project member router firewall CSG Hosting Service

© 2012 Autodesk Designed for two companies working together 3 Steelhead Mobile clients for each company $175 per month/each company $145 one time setup fee for each user VPN client installed on each workstation/laptop

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