San Francisco — December 13, 2005 — Riverbed Technology, the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), will showcase its award-winning Steelhead® appliances at Interop in New York, December 13-15 at the Javits Convention Center, New York City. In addition, the company's Chief Scientist, Mark Day, will speak on a panel titled "Lessons from the Edge: Consolidating Remote Office Infrastructure" on December 14 at 11:15AM.

Riverbed® will showcase its Steelhead appliances in the Riverbed booth, and demonstrate how the appliances can improve the performance of applications over wide area networks (WANs) up to 100x. Riverbed's intelligent optimizations give companies that share data and collaborate between distributed offices the best performance for the widest range of applications. The Steelhead appliance is the only WDS product on the market that solves all the key problems with application performance on WANs. These problems have been or are currently experienced by virtually every multi-site company in the world. Steelhead appliances deliver the industry's best network compression, optimise the behaviour of TCP, and add application-specific optimisations to minimise the effect of high latency on common enterprise applications.

Riverbed executives will be attending the conference and will be available to speak with press and industry analysts on a number of technology and market-trend topics. For press and analysts interested in scheduling briefings with Riverbed executives, please contact Kim Kapustka at (650) 685-6342 or kim@k2pr.com.

Riverbed Technology is the pioneer in wide-area data services (WDS), a fast-growing product category that solves the problems of high latency and low bandwidth that plague a wide variety of applications over distributed networks. Riverbed's Steelhead appliances provide the highest level of performance across the broadest range of applications over WANs, accelerating applications by up to 100 times, and reducing WAN traffic by up to 95%. By providing optimisations that are orders of magnitude greater than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work � and enabling, for the first time, a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. The Wall Street Journal has named Riverbed the winner of its 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the Network/Broadband/Internet category. In addition, InfoWorld named Steelhead a "Technology of the Year" for 2005 as the "Best WAN Accelerator." Riverbed's award-winning solutions are available worldwide from resellers who are members of the Riverbed Partner Network, Riverbed OEM partners, or directly from Riverbed. Riverbed has received funding from Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, Lightspeed Venture Partners and UV Partners.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead 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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For more information, visit www.riverbed.com.

Media Contacts:

Alan Saldich
Riverbed Technology
(415) 247-7308
alan@riverbed.com

Kim Kapustka
K2pr
(650) 685-6342
kim@k2pr.com

 

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