Riverbed Awarded Patent on Core WDS Technology
Proven Technology Speeds Application Performance at Remote Sites by up to 100X and Overcomes the Limitations of Geography for Global Businesses
San Francisco, CA — November 13, 2006 — Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD) announced today that the company has been issued U.S. Patent 7,120,666 for its “Transaction Accelerator for Client-Server Communication Systems,” which is becoming core technology in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions.
“Riverbed® was founded with a vision to create integrated and intelligent solutions to the networking, application, and storage issues that together slow the performance of distributed networks and cause remote sites to suffer painfully slow application and file transfer speeds,” said Steve McCanne, chief technology officer at Riverbed. “This patent reflects our technology leadership in WDS and related solutions and our willingness to protect our intellectual property.”
About Riverbed’s Steelhead® Appliances
Riverbed’s wide-area data services (WDS) solutions enable organizations with more than one office to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between distributed sites, by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices,
Riverbed’s award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead appliances have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world’s largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just
miles apart.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. 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. Additional information about
Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry;
our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation
to update these forward-looking statements.
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Contact:
Kim Kapustka
415-344-4476
kim@riverbed.com
Julie Huang
Engage PR
(510) 748-8200 x209
jhuang@engagepr.com
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