Riverbed's Steelhead Appliance Named a Technology of the Year by InfoWorld for Third Consecutive Year

    Named Best WAN Accelerator in 2005, 2006 and 2007; Technology
          Recognized for Maturity, Simplicity and Speed

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2007--Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that InfoWorld has named Riverbed's Steelhead(R) appliance as the Best WAN Accelerator of 2007. InfoWorld established the WAN accelerator category in 2005; Riverbed has been the winner since the inception of the category, with InfoWorld awarding the Steelhead appliance a rating of 9.0 out of a maximum of 10 for three years running. To view this year's report, please visit www.riverbed.com/infoworld.

"The annual Technology of the Year Awards highlight the best products reviewed by the InfoWorld Test Center in the past year that are defining, and often redefining, the role of IT," said Steve Fox, InfoWorld's editor in chief. "Regardless of category, innovation thrives across enterprise IT."

According to InfoWorld's Technology of the Year writeup, "perennial winner Riverbed continues to impress with expanded CIFS and NFS support in 3.0, allowing for better performance with both Windows- and NFS-based servers. QoS can now be enforced in the appliance with policies based on bandwidth and latency. Detection and correction of asymmetric routes is also a big plus."

"This award is a reflection of our real-world experience with customers," said Eric Wolford, senior vice president, marketing and business development at Riverbed. "In head-to-head competition, organizations select Riverbed(R) over the alternatives, including Cisco and Juniper, the majority of the time. We offer customers the most proven, mature solution that is simple to install and manage and provides the best performance for the broadest range of applications important to their businesses."

InfoWorld reviewed Riverbed's Steelhead appliance models 200, 5520 and 6020, plus its new release of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS(TM)), in October 2006. The reviewer noted that, "true to form, the company provided excellent improvements with little tweaking. Release 3 of RiOS shows a more mature product, with the focus on improving existing features, the addition of greater application support, and much increased capacity. During its time on my bench, Steelhead proved again that it is more than capable of making oversubscribed WAN circuits appear faster than they were while greatly reducing response time, besting previous releases by as much as 20 percent." The full review is available at www.riverbed.com/infoworldreview.