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Existing and new customers alike can benefit from financial incentives through our migration programs. We'll enable your organization to successfully upgrade Riverbed products or migrate to our platforms with the experience and expertise of our renowned support team. Our products are available in a variety of form factors to provide choice and flexibility for nearly any deployment configuration.

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  • Take advantage of our Trade Up and Trade-in programs and get what you need to make your IT work at peak performance.

    Trade Up Program

    Existing customers can keep their Steelhead® appliance deployment up-to-date with advanced products that offer a higher price/performance ratio over previous generations. The program enables you to drive higher ROI for your investment, as well as easily recycle your older gear.

    Trade-in Program

    Enterprises and cloud service providers seeking to move from eligible competitive products can enjoy significant cost-saving incentives, along with all the choice, flexibility, and benefits available from Riverbed's latest product releases.

    Go green with Riverbed

    Riverbed Trade Up and Trade-in programs include a recycle option through M-Cubed, a global recycler with locations and partners all over the world. Customers can contact M-Cubed directly, with one phone call or email, to take part in Riverbed's Global recycling program.

    M-Cubed: (408) 752-1560 or tradein@M-Cubed.com.

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  • The Riverbed® Trade-in Program makes it possible for enterprises seeking to move from eligible competitive products to enjoy significant cost-saving incentives, along with all the choice, flexibility, and benefits available from Riverbed's latest product releases: RiOS® 8.0, new Steelhead® platforms, Cascade® 10.0, and Stingray™ Traffic Manager.

    Riverbed delivers performance for over 19,000 globally connected enterprises. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance.

    What are you waiting for? Offer expires 12/31/13.

    Trade-in Program Terms and Conditions

    Trade-in by vendor:

    Receive up to a 10-15% discount for the following qualified competitive Trade-in products:

    Blue Coat | Cisco | Juniper Networks | Silver Peak | NetScout | Expand Networks

    Trade-in by product:

    WAN optimization (Steelhead appliances) | Application-aware network performance management (Cascade products) | Application delivery controller (Stingray Traffic Manager software)

     

    Riverbed products continue to offer more features for less money.

    Examples include:

    • Every Steelhead EX series appliance comes with the VMware-based Virtual Services Platform (VSP) and performance-boosting SSDs (Solid State Drives)
    • Starting for less than $1,000, the new Steelhead 150 series brings affordable WAN optimization to emerging markets and specialized verticals such as retail
    • RiOS® 8.0 (Riverbed® Optimization System) features enhanced scale, offers increased security, and compliance, as well as improved management capabilities. It also improves VDI performance with quality of service control for PCoIP.

    Trade-in by vendor:

    Blue Coat

    Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Blue Coat products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances: Find out how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions provide superior performance.


    Cisco

    Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Cisco WAAS products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances: Learn how Riverbed addresses a broader range of WAN optimization requirements, including layer-7 capabilities.

    Trade-in for Stingray Application Delivery Controller

    Get up to a 15% discount on qualified Cisco ACE products traded in for Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager: Cisco recently discontinued its ACE application delivery product line. Riverbed Stingray™ software outperforms Cisco ACE for all key ADC functions and provides significant advantages around application integration, advanced functionality, and ease of deployment in virtualized environments.

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    Juniper Networks

    Trade-in for Steelhead WAN Optimization

    Juniper Networks has announced the end-of-life of its WX/WXC Series Application Acceleration Platforms. The company is committed to its customers and has selected Riverbed Technology as its WAN optimization provider of choice. Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Juniper Networks products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances.

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    Silver Peak

    Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Silver Peak products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances: Learn how Riverbed addresses a broader range of WAN optimization requirements, including layer-7 capabilities.


    Netscout

    NetScout requires a number of different analysis UIs, including Sniffer and nGenius Infinistream. Riverbed Cascade®, on the other hand, strikes the right balance of packet capture accessibility and performance. Therefore it should come as no surprise that IT organizations, after careful product comparisons, are turning to Riverbed Cascade as their core application and network performance management solution. Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Netscout products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances.

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    Expand Networks

    Organizations that prefer a new WAN optimization solution can make a migration that respects existing Expand investments. Get up to a 15% discount on qualified Expand Networks products traded in for Riverbed Steelhead appliances.

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    Trade-in by product:

    WAN optimization (Steelhead appliances)

    WAN optimization is a collection of techniques for increasing data-transfer efficiencies across wide-area networks. Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in this category. Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Cisco, Blue Coat, Silver Peak, and Juniper Networks products -- and a 15% discount on qualified Expand Networks products-- traded in for Steelhead appliances.


    Application-aware network performance management (Cascade products)

    Get end-to-end visibility into the performance of critical business applications with the only application-aware network performance solution suited for any environment, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Get up to a 10% discount on qualified Netscout products


    Application delivery controller (Stingray products)

    Application delivery software is designed to make applications faster, reliable, and secure. As software, it's designed to work within cloud environments and be easily integrated into an application stack. Stingray Traffic Manager is available with web content optimization and application firewall. Get up to a 15% discount on qualified Cisco ACE products traded in for Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager.

    Go green with Riverbed

    Riverbed Trade Up and Trade-in programs include a recycle option through M-Cubed, a global recycler with locations and partners all over the world. Customers can contact M-Cubed directly, with one phone call or email, to take part in Riverbed's Global recycling program.

    M-Cubed: (408) 752-1560 or tradein@M-Cubed.com.

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    • Upgrade your Steelhead appliances to the latest models with the greatest capabilities
    • Get special credit for being a loyal Riverbed customer
    • Be green by recycling your older gear

    Thanks for being a loyal Riverbed Technology customer! We know that keeping your Steelhead® appliance deployment up-to-date is critical for your business to be as productive as possible. We value you as a customer and a partner, and our Trade Up Program enables you to easily and cost-effectively transition to the latest Steelhead appliance models. Why upgrade?

    • Get the latest hardware. Get more performance for less money for the products you already know and depend on.
    • Get new functionality. Depending on your model, you may not have access to current versions of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) featuring key video, VDI and UDP optimizations with integrated Riverbed Cascade® Shark for on-demand troubleshooting.
    • Get enhanced support. With changes in our support model on our most recent platforms, you can get Riverbed’s world-class support with an even more cost-effective support package.

    The Riverbed Trade Up Program
    The Riverbed Trade Up Program allows you to get additional financial incentives for certain end of sale Steelhead appliances that you are refreshing with new Steelhead appliances. The program enables you to drive higher ROI for your investment, as well as easily recycle your older gear. The details are as follows:

    • Credit for trade ups. For each appliance that you refresh under the terms of the program, Riverbed will make available up to $17,995 in credit(1) towards the purchase of a replacement appliance.
    • No-cost-to-you recycling. Through our partnership with M-Cubed, we support worldwide collection and recycling of older Steelhead appliances. This allows you to be green without any additional investment.

    What are you waiting for? Offer expires 12/31/13.

    Discounts, better performance for less money, new features—add it all up and you can’t afford to miss this compelling offer!

    For more information contact your Riverbed authorized representative or contact us online.

    For Terms and Conditions please visit www.riverbed.com/tradeuplegal.

    1. Credit amount varies based on the appliance you are recycling and the new appliance you purchase to replace such older appliances. Credit amount may also vary based on any special pricing or other promotional offers made available on the sale of the new replacement appliance. Please contact your Riverbed authorized partner for more information.

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Riverbed. WAN optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation. Riverbed is the IT performance company. WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed liberate businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies trust Riverbed to deliver greater productivity and cost savings by making their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Riverbed solutions are also available as managed services through select providers.