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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.”