San Francisco, CA — April 28, 2006 — Riverbed Technology, Inc., the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions, announced today the availability of 24x7 follow-the-sun global technical support to customers of its Steelhead® appliances. In addition, Riverbed® announced the expansion of operations throughout EMEA with new or expanded offices in the Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland. With the opening of the Amsterdam technical support center, Riverbed is now able to provide its global customers with world-class expertise and assistance regardless of time-of-day or location. Riverbed currently has support centers in San Francisco, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore and Tokyo.

"Our customers range from small organizations with just one or two remote offices to global enterprises with thousands of employees and hundreds or thousands of remote sites. Our ability to provide 24x7 technical global support maintains the industry-leading level of performance that customers expect from their Steelhead appliances." said Jerry Kennelly, president and CEO at Riverbed. "This expansion in EMEA and in global support is yet another example of our total commitment to our customers' success wherever they may be."

Riverbed has expanded its EMEA operations with the establishment of a technical support center in Amsterdam, and the opening of new sales offices in Italy, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland. The expansion of Riverbed's European and South African operations further establishes Riverbed's strong presence in the EMEA region and is driven by customer and partner demand, as organizations recognize the importance of optimizing wide area network (WAN) performance for a broad range of applications and services, including IT consolidation, backup and disaster recovery, and application acceleration.

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. The Wall Street Journal named Riverbed the winner of its 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the Network/ Broadband/Internet category. In addition, InfoWorld has named Riverbed's Steelhead appliance "Technology of the Year" in both 2005 and 2006, as the "Best WAN Accelerator". Riverbed's award-winning solutions are available worldwide from resellers who are members of the Riverbed Partner Network, from Riverbed OEM partners, or directly from Riverbed.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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