International Non-Profit Organization Selects Riverbed to Double Its Network Performance Without Increasing Costs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 15 (MARKET WIRE) --
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in
wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that Family Health International
(FHI) has selected and successfully deployed Riverbed's Steelhead(R) WDS
appliances. FHI deployed Riverbed's appliances in offices throughout the world
to
optimize the performance of applications between remote sites, make better
use of its bandwidth, and to significantly improve its employee efficiency
and overall productivity.

Formed in 1971, FHI is among the largest and most established nonprofit
organizations active in international public health with a mission to
improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in
familyhealth. FHI manages research and field activities in more than seventy
countries
to meet the public health needs of some of the world's most vulnerable people.
The organization works with a wide variety of partners including governmental
and
nongovernmental organizations, private foundations, research institutions,
community groups, and the private sector.

As the Chief Information Officer at FHI, Mark Dronzek is responsible for
delivering information technology services and infrastructure on a global basis,
including to all 40 of FHI's country offices. With approximately two-thirds of
its
nearly 1,800 employees located in developing countries, FHI currently uses
in-country ISPs for its wide-area network (WAN), which in reality is a
collection of autonomous sites. Availability and quality of service varies
from country to country, which made interactions between international offices
challenging and required excessive amounts of time to download email and
documents from other office locations, if they downloaded at all. Dronzek
needed to find a way to cost-effectively speed access to data and applications
in order to increase the organization's efficiency and ability to collaborate.

FHI's Director of IT International Operations, Mark McCullough, and
Dronzekbegan to design and build an organizational wide area network (WAN) for
FHI,
starting by implementing very small aperture terminals (VSATs) for satellite
access from Country Offices. They are also consolidating each country's
Exchange email application into a single, global instance while simultaneously
expanding Active Directory globally. In parallel, they evaluated several
alternatives for WAN optimization, including wide-area augmentation system
(WAAS)
products from Cisco, Packeteer, and Juniper. Cisco was a natural choice for FHI
since it is a Cisco partner, but FHI encountered challenges based on
installation and functionality that caused it to halt that evaluation.

While looking into alternative solutions, FHI came across Riverbed's
technical white
papers highlighting performance benchmarks. The documents so impressed FHI that
the
company tested Riverbed's solution in its corporate headquarters to simulate
a high latency environment over VSATs. In less than 30 minutes, FHI was able to
set up two evaluation boxes. "We were amazed by the results," said Dronzek.
"The tests we conducted gave us even better performance results than what
was published in the white papers. As soon as we saw how user-friendly the
deployment was and how impressive the test results were, we knew Riverbed was
the solution for us."

After the initial Riverbed implementation was completed, FHI was able to
more than effectively double its bandwidth at the site without increasing its
bandwidth costs. To date, FHI has six Riverbed Steelhead(R) WDS appliances
deployed at sites worldwide. Even though FHI has U.S.-based IT staff trained
to install the appliances, the product is so easy to deploy that sometimes the
IT department just talks overseas IT employees through the installation over the
phone.

FHI is in the process of rolling out a web-based timesheet system and a
global financial application to manage all of its accounting and project awards
and expects to deploy additional Riverbed Steelhead appliances at each
primary country site that will access these global applications. FHI is also
exploring the Steelhead Mobile software for applicability to highly mobile users
in the field.

About Family Health International (FHI)

Family Health International is dedicated to improving lives, knowledge,
andunderstanding worldwide through a diversified program of research, education,
and
services in family health. Since 1971, FHI has worked with national
governments and local communities throughout the developing world to meet the
public health needs of some of the world's most vulnerable people, supporting
lasting improvements in the health of individuals and their families.

Steelhead Products

Riverbed's WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a
host of severe problems, including poor application performance and
insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of
applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five
to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbed's award-winning
Steelhead
WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and
replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff
productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products 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 potential additional deployments of Riverbed's products and
services,
statements relating to use of Steelhead Mobile software, statements relating to
improved performance from the use of Riverbed's products and services, and
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
uncertaintiesthat 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
ExchangeCommission. 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
October 25, 2007. All forward-looking statements in this press release
arebased on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product,
feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are
for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any
technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future
product plans at any time.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the technology and market 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.

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