NZ Department of Conservation Improves Remote User Satisfaction and Productivity by Deploying Riverbed's WDS Solutions

Business Wire, July 30, 2007

Speeds Web-Based Application Performance; Increases Bandwidth Capacity

SAN FRANCISCO -- Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that the Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand has implemented its Steelhead[R] wide-area data services (WDS) appliances, at 60 sites throughout New Zealand, including three offices that are connected by satellite, to speed the performance of centralized applications and remote backup of data.

DOC is responsible for protecting the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand, as well as providing recreational opportunities for locals and tourists. With around 3,000 employees, the Department is divided into 13 conservancies across the north and south islands, each of which has between one and four area offices depending on the size of the conservancy.

Ken Walker, manager, technology and outsourced services, DOC, says the geographical distribution of New Zealand, and the remote locations of the majority of the organisation's offices, meant the sites outside of the main city centres were severely constrained by bandwidth limitations.

"The challenge in New Zealand is that you can really only access high speed Internet from the bigger cities," he explains. "Of our 60 sites, only seven are located in city centres and some are as remote as Aoraki/Mount Cook. This meant our remote offices were typically operating on bandwidth levels of 2MB, whereas in the city you can get 10MB or 100MB Ethernet connections."

When the organization began rolling out a new document management system to centralise management and backup processes, DOC took the opportunity to address the bandwidth constraints being experienced at its remote sites by deploying Riverbed's Steelhead appliances.

DOC chose Riverbed[R] based on Gartner's positioning of Riverbed in the 'WAN Optimisation Controller Magic Quadrant.' View Gartner's Magic Quadrant: www.riverbed.com/gartner. Since deployment began in late 2005, there have been no complaints about the previously slow network and while no official measurements have been taken, Mr Walker says Riverbed has sped up response time for a number of DOC's web-based applications by 500 percent.

"Users are generally happy unless they say otherwise and most of them are blissfully unaware the Steelhead devices are even there," says Mr Walker. "Even when we do complicated things on the network, the Riverbed technology just lets it happen. It's smart enough not to create problems for us, It's speeding up response times and the maths certainly stands up as far as value for money goes."

Steve Dixon, regional director, Australia/New Zealand, Riverbed, says DOC is typical of the distributed organisations occupying New Zealand.

"Regardless of their location, remote sites still need to collaborate in real-time," says Mr Dixon. "By using WDS technology, organizations can ensure applications running in remote offices are performing in line with those in the head office. It's not just about making applications run fast, but about taking advantage of that speed to significantly reduce costs for an organisation."

About The Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. View Gartner's Magic Quadrant: www.riverbed.com/gartner.> About Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed's 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. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.> Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied 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; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; 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. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on April 27, 2007. 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.