CNP Selects Riverbed to Accelerate Access to Consolidated Data

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in
wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that building, surveying
and construction technology firm CNP has selected and deployed
Riverbed(R) Steelhead(R) WDS appliances at six of its sites in the UK and
Germany. The deployment is part of the company's efforts to consolidate
its IT infrastructure, centralize application delivery, improve file
replication, and reduce its network management overhead after a period of
international growth. Since the implementation, CNP has seen a 50 percent
reduction in bandwidth utilization, a ten times improvement to file
transfer times, and a five times improvement to backup times.

CNP specializes in all aspects of building and quantity surveying, project
management and construction technology. Reporting a yearly turnover in
excess of GBP 10 million, expansion has been rapid, with eight offices
located in the United Kingdom and Germany. Today, the company's 110-strong
workforce delivers building and project consultancy to a broad client
base, including financial institutions, property developers, occupiers,
agents and the public sector.

Richard Seear, CNP's head of IT, explains the problem they faced: "Sudden
growth meant we had to look at ways of providing all the services and the
numerous applications that were required, without having the cost of
installing large servers. With a server in every site, there's a lot of
overhead for support and maintenance, both in terms of the servers
themselves plus the cost of the additional hardware and software."

To meet this challenge, CNP wanted to carry out a major re-architecture of
its IT infrastructure, including consolidating the network via the data
center in Manchester. However, it became clear that a WDS solution would
be required to enable file replication without considerable spending on
additional bandwidth. CNP turned to Riverbed, as Seear comments, "We
looked at other suppliers in the market, but there just wasn't enough
background on their options, whereas the Riverbed solution was a proven
technology."

To trial Riverbed, CNP conducted test replication scenarios and some 'user
acceptance' tests on Steelhead appliances. "We ran several users on the
new system and didn't tell them that we'd changed servers, just to see
whether the phone would ring... it didn't," stated Seear. Following this
successful pilot, six Steelhead appliances were installed and configured
in a day and a half.

The installation has enabled CNP to replicate its files across the wide
area network (WAN) using a fraction of the bandwidth it previously needed.
The company can now replicate 80Gb of documents across the WAN in less
than a week while only using 512kps of physical bandwidth. Previously
this task would have taken up to two weeks. In addition, CNP can now
optimize its email traffic, allowing 50 percent of its Exchange Servers
to be removed from the network.

"I would estimate that the Steelhead appliances have paid for themselves
within the first year, purely from an IT perspective, without factoring in
enhancements for the end users in terms of improved productivity," said
Seear.

Steelhead Products

Riverbed 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.

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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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